Hello, Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ? Thanks.
Mike Jakubik wrote:> Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs > partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?no space (the code is in the 1st stage boot...) mkb.
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:> Hello, > > Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs > partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?There isn't enough space to support all 256 partition types in the 512 bytes of space available to the mbr. Fancy multi-sector options are available, but we don't provide them. Many people consider this a feature. :) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050518/10a3249e/attachment.bin
In the last episode (May 18), Mike Jakubik said:> Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a > ntfs partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?The next release should: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v revision 1.14 date: 2005/02/08 20:43:04; author: des; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS). revision 1.10.2.4 (RELENG_5) date: 2005/04/21 15:42:28; author: obrien; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 MFC: rev 1.14: remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
On Wed, May 18, 2005 4:28 pm, Dan Nelson said:> The next release should: > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v > > > revision 1.14 date: 2005/02/08 20:43:04; author: des; state: Exp; > lines: +2 -2 > Remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS). > > > revision 1.10.2.4 (RELENG_5) date: 2005/04/21 15:42:28; author: obrien; > state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 > MFC: rev 1.14: remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 > (NTFS).Ahh, good stuff. Thanks for the info.