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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:46, Marco Gerards wrote:
> The BSD disklabel is a weird special case.  Perhaps we need some kind
> of nested partitions or so.  I don't know if that will make sense
> because I have no knowledge about BSD slices and how they are used.

Take a look at this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html

Note that you can make a BSD disklabel without any PC partition, if you 
wish. This is not supported by GRUB legacy (except for floppies).

Okuji