Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:33:44 +1000 From: Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jean-Paul van der Windt <jp@niagrow.com> Subject: Re: LILO Message-ID: <200208130933.44103.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020812154201.F67426-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> References: <20020812154201.F67426-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
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Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:42, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > I think it's a disklabel(8) thing, but I don't have an extra box lyin= g > > around to test it on. disklabel is a powerful and dangerous thing ;-) > I don't think it is... I've seen a couple of replies to this indicating > that it' I am not sure, but I am fairly certian, that the labels in the boot manag= er=20 are displayed based on the partion type. So if its a freebsd partion type= it=20 says freebsd, fat32, it says DOS, if its XP I get ??. I assume that is=20 because that partion type is not entered into the boot manager code.=20 (Each 'partion type' has a unique identifier number, ie i think freebsd's= code=20 is 69 or something, its been a while since I looked at all that.) =20 Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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