[PATCH] fix /boot/loader for extended slices
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Dec 20 05:17:03 PST 2004
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
>
> -Matt
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