On 02/21/2016 10:57 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > fat16 needs to remain the default so that existing scripts and wrappers > continue to have the current behaviour. (One of the main reasons for a > separate boot partition rather than simply having a boot directory is > to have a filesystem supported by the bootloader.) >
This patch does not change default file system type of the boot partition which is currently 'ext2'. This patch only changes the type in partition table entry. When --boottype is 'ext2' we expect to see partition table contain the type as 83 (Linux). Currently, 'ext2' (and every other file system type) /boot partitions are labeled as 'fat16' in partition table which does not help boot loaders. 'fat16' partition type is incorrect for anything other than 'msdos' and 'vfat' file systems and on the other hand on GNU/Linux systems '83 (Linux)' is correct for most file systems. Choosing 'ext2' causes '83 (Linux)' flag to be set in the partition table. -- Sunil
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