From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 9 07:37:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25752 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-53-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25563 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id QAA01450; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:23:49 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812091423.QAA01450@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: how to install the new boot manager? In-Reply-To: <19981209114852.A1828@foobar.franken.de> from Harold Gutch at "Dec 9, 98 11:48:52 am" To: logix@foobar.franken.de (Harold Gutch) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:23:48 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, jose@we.lc.ehu.es, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message