Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:19:59 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs? Message-ID: <20050519091959.GD2129@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20050519092733.044eac00@gid.co.uk> References: <20050518162535.B87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200505190156.aa13658@nowhere.iedowse.com> <6.2.0.14.2.20050519092733.044eac00@gid.co.uk>
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On Thu, 2005-May-19 09:29:25 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: >At 01:56 19/05/2005, Ian Dowse wrote: >>[...] >>BTW, one potential improvement to the current boot0 situation would >>be to have boot0cfg dynamically generate the OS table based on what >>partition types actually exist on the disk. [etc] > >That would be just plain unhelpful in the case where a partition gets >retyped subsequently. As I read Ian's proposal, it still dynamically detects the partition types at boot time. It's just that the table of known partition types is built by boot0cfg based on the partition types when boot0cfg is run. If you change a partition partition type then the new partition type may not be recognized but that is no worse than the current situation. It would probably be possible to pad the available space with other "common" partition types. -- Peter Jeremy
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