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> The `0x81' code repesenst (so I think)
> an enhanced minix file system with name length > 14 chars, etc.
> I don't know, if the minix implementation in GRUB is able to
> handle this !!!!
Once again, the partiotion types are not authoritative (with the exception
of DOS that relies). Grub correctly tells the different filesystems apart
using the minix magic number stored in the super block. The magic number
is different for the different minix implementations.
Applying my patch has been the only way I had to access my minix
partition on an old linux-2.0 disk I mounted on my 386-SX. Sure I
could change the partition types (after finding some other way to
boot, though), but I'm pretty sure every minix fs created under GNU/Linux
will have 0x81 in the partition table and a 30-chars filesystem.
Note, this is not the minix version 2 filesystem, which is not supported
by GRUB (and identified by means of the magic number, not the partition table.
It is the default of mkfs.minix under Linux, grub dealt fine with it
as stored two years ago on my disk.
Regards
/alessandro
