Re: [PATCH] fix /boot/loader for extended slices

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 01:50:14PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     So what we need is some serious testing, e.g. like creating multiple
>     extended dos partitions two recursions deep and seeing if the partition
>     data is properly passed between the loader and kernel.

One important test case is an extended partition starting at sector 0,
read: the MBR itself. That used to be a fairly easy way to kill DOS, NT
and Linux a while back :)

Joerg

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> 					-Matt