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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