Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

[Dirk Ritter]

Hello Josip Rodin!

 On Wed, 8 December 1999 at 17:55:28, you wrote:

 > If it's not a big problem to implement it, it should at least
 > say it's some kind of swap partition, as a warning to newbie/hasty
 > users so they don't try to boot from it.

That could pass as a reasonable suggestion. However - the
sole fact that a partition marked as 'swap' does not hold
a filesystem by convention makes live a bit difficult since
only people like Gordon would place a file there in order
to load it with a blocklist notation - crazy, but he is of
course right - you could do such things but you still would
not use a filesystem. So how does a swap signature of some
OS fit into a list of filesystems? Not overly well either
I would guess... Maybe "none (swap)" would be acceptable?

/bye
Dirk