>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
>> 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.
GRUB shouldn't depend on the partition type to read files. I'll look
into this.
OY> The type 63 is not used for Hurd actually, so you shouldn't use
OY> it, though I don't know why many fdisk programs assume that 63 is
OY> GNU/Hurd. Perhaps Thomas and Gordon know the reason.
My understanding is that the people who wrote Linux fdisk just
arbitrarily decided to reserve 0x63 for the Hurd, but I may be wrong.
Thomas would know for sure.
In any event, if GRUB ever needs a magic partition type (for automated
installations) I'd like to use 0x63, since it's already nicely
reserved for us.
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