The code in block/partitions/msdos.c recognizes FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD partitions and does a reasonable job picking out OpenBSD and NetBSD UFS subpartitions. But for FreeBSD the subpartitions are always "bad". Kernel: <bsd:bad subpartition - ignored Though all 3 of these BSD systems use UFS as a file system, only FreeBSD uses relative start addresses in the subpartition declarations. The following patch fixes this for FreeBSD partitions and leaves the code for OpenBSD and NetBSD intact: Signed-off-by: Richard Narron <comet.berkeley@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/partitions/msdos.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/block/partitions/msdos.c 2015-12-27 18:17:37.000000000 -0800 +++ b/block/partitions/msdos.c 2015-12-29 10:44:25.813773357 -0800 @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ static void parse_bsd(struct parsed_part continue; bsd_start = le32_to_cpu(p->p_offset); bsd_size = le32_to_cpu(p->p_size); + if (memcmp(flavour, "bsd\0", 4) == 0) + bsd_start = bsd_start + offset; if (offset == bsd_start && size == bsd_size) /* full parent partition, we have it already */ continue;