From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grub-19990310 doesn't read Hurd partitions
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:21:21 +0400 (EEST)

> I created a Hurd partition with type 63 by Linux fdisk v2.9. This fdisk
> claims that type 63 means GNU Hurd. I formatted it as ext2 with "-o hurd"
> option. However, Grub rejectes to read files on this partition.

  The type 63 is not used for Hurd actually, so you shouldn't use
it, though I don't know why many fdisk programs assume that 63 is
GNU/Hurd. Perhaps Thomas and Gordon know the reason.

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