Re: boot0 patch

From: Wilko Bulte <wb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:49:09 +0100
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:28:08PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
> On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:22 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > boot0 currently recognizes FAT partition types 0x1, 0x4, 0x6, 0xb, 0xc
> > and 0xe but not NTFS (type 0x7).  While type 0x1 (FAT12) is used on
> > floppies and 0x6 (FAT16 >32M) is still in relatively common use on
> > hard disks, I believe 0x4 (FAT16 <32M) hasn't been in widespread use
> > since the late eighties.  The attached patch removes 0x4 from the list
> > of recognized partition types in boot0 and adds 0x7 in its place.
> >
> > We still don't have room for the string "Windows", so type 0x7 is
> > identified as DOS, but at least it's identified...

You could identify it as FAT iso DOS.  Catches both.

> Go for it.  I think boot0ext does recognize it as Windows or some such FWIW.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko_at_FreeBSD.org
Received on Tue Feb 08 2005 - 17:49:12 UTC

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