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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:23:48 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        logix@foobar.franken.de (Harold Gutch)
Cc:        rnordier@nordier.com, jose@we.lc.ehu.es, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to install the new boot manager?
Message-ID:  <199812091423.QAA01450@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981209114852.A1828@foobar.franken.de> from Harold Gutch at "Dec 9, 98 11:48:52 am"

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Harold Gutch wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 11:34:46PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote:
> > The new boot manager has recently been updated to work much more
> > like booteasy (F5 support, etc), and also provides the following
> > additional functionality:
> > 
> >     o  Recognizes a few more recent partitions types (including
> >        extended partition type 0xf)
> > 
> Which reminds me that the NetBSD-folks changed their partition
> ID from 165 to 166 a while ago, does boot0 recognize that too ?
> If it does not, please ask somebody from the NetBSD-camp, as I'm
> not 100% sure if it was 166 :) - they did change it some time
> 6-8 weeks ago though.

A type 166 is currently reported simply as "BSD".  I think OpenBSD
has been using 166 for a while.  However, if NetBSD are using
something different, I'm sure we can find space for that too.

--
Robert Nordier

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