Re: recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type?

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:42 -0600
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
Received on Sun Jun 28 2009 - 17:41:47 UTC

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