Re: /boot/loader bug

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, walt wrote:

> ...the loader is mis-
> identifying the extended partitions in the DOS partition
> table...

> The next slice is correctly identified at ext2 but is
> mis-numbered as 7 instead of 6. The last two slices
> (a5/DFly) don't show up at all...

More info:  loader will not recognize anything past logical
partition 6 (and mis-numbers it as 7).

When I deleted enough partitions to bring my DFly partition
down to number 6 the loader recognized it and I could load
the kernel from the extended partition.  Exciting!

It still won't boot properly because loader is confused by
its own misnumbering of the partitions.  Once that bug is
fixed I think it will all just work.