Subject: Re: Booting an extended partition using NetBSD
To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/03/2006 21:37:46
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 08:06:40PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

> 3: Ext. partition - LBA (sysid 15)
>    start 37817010, size 40307085 (19681 MB, Cyls 2354-4863)

I think the contents of the above are what confuses it.
(Which you didn't give)

This one looks ok.

> E0 ------
> 0000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> *
> 0190  00 00 00 00 62 6c 75 65  77 61 6c 6c 00 00 00 00  |....bluewall....|
> 01a0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 01b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 e1 b5 00 a3  |................|
> 01c0  c1 ff 83 82 ff ff 3f 00  00 00 41 80 56 00 00 83  |......?...A.V...|
> 01d0  c1 ff 05 fe ff ff 7e 80  5e 00 bd 0a da 00 00 00  |......~.^.......|
> 01e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> 01f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|

I THOUGHT I'd spotted the problem - then realised that the 'junk' sector
should give a junk bootemenu name, rather than abort the scan.

Although, quite possibly, adding a bootmenu name to the first extended
partition (your swap ptn) might get things working.  You can delete
it by changing it to <space><enter>.

	David

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