Bug 19070

Summary: boot0 displays NTFS partitions as "??"
Product: Base System Reporter: larse <larse>
Component: i386Assignee: rnordier
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description larse 2000-06-06 21:40:01 UTC 
boot0 shows NTFS partitions as "??"
could this be changed to have it show "NTFS" instead?

How-To-Repeat: create an NTFS parition on a local disk, install boot0 on it, reboot
Comment 1 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-10-12 18:12:40 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->rnordier

Over to boot0 maintainer.
Comment 2 larse 2000-11-07 21:44:17 UTC 
Has been fixed recently (it now shows "Windows NT"). Please close this
item.
-- 
Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                 Information Sciences Institute
http://www.isi.edu/larse/                University of Southern California
Comment 3 rnordier freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-11-07 22:26:32 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

We don't have the space for this, unless boot0 is substantially 
redesigned.
Comment 4 rnordier 2000-11-07 22:27:11 UTC 
Lars Eggert wrote:
 
> The following reply was made to PR i386/19070; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: i386/19070: boot0 displays NTFS partitions as "??"
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:44:17 -0800
 
>  Has been fixed recently (it now shows "Windows NT"). Please close this
>  item.
>  -- 
>  Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>                 Information Sciences Institute
>  http://www.isi.edu/larse/                University of Southern California

No, it was "unfixed" in FreeBSD-current as the fix was giving problems.

This is an issue that can really only be satisfactorily solved if
we supply a larger boot manager.  By design, boot0 is limited to a
single sector and only 446 bytes is available for code and data.  Even
identifying NTFS will take more space than we really have to spare.

-- 
Robert Nordier

rnordier@nordier.com
rnordier@FreeBSD.org