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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:15:47 -0400
From:      Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
To:        Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type?
Message-ID:  <4A484E03.2080308@acm.poly.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4A47C1DF.2020908@phat.za.net>
References:  <4A4751ED.8020002@phat.za.net>	<20090628181105.GA98246@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4A47C1DF.2020908@phat.za.net>

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Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>> yes it was removed to save space, i am more than happy to replace 0xb
>> with 0xc if the latter turns out to be more popular.
>>
>> So far we have the following (all the rest is basically commented
>> out because we need space for other stuff):
>>
>>     131    linux
>>     165    FreeBSD
>>     166    [Open]BSD
>>     169    [Net]BSD
>>     6    Win [FAT16 >= 32MB]
>>     7    Win [NTFS]
>>     11    Win [FAT32]
>>
>> Suggestions for replacements are welcome
>
> From my bit of research now, it looks like types 6 and 11 should be 
> changed.  Their modern equivalents are 0xE and 0xC respectively.  I 
> think the only Redmond systems that still use 0x6 and 0xB pre-date 
> Windows XP.  I'm basing my opinions on personal experience and:
>
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
>
> The only caveat I see is:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151414
>
> But with limited space we probably should just decide to not worry 
> about anything older than Windows XP...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Aragon
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Just wanted to chime in and say that I currently happily dual boot 
between FreeBSD 7.2 and Windows 2000, and would vote for continuing to 
be able to do so.

-Boris



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