Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:42 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> 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: <4A47C28A.2030000@samsco.org> 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... How about not worrying about NetBSD or OpenBSD? How many people typically multi-boot OpenBSD? Scott
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