Re: new boot loader?

2006-03-30 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Thu, March 30, 2006 9:12 pm, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I saw a message about a new rewritten boot loader on one of the DragonFly > lists, but for some reason I can't find it now. > > Can someone point me to the thread? I didn't find the thread right off, but searching the source led me to: http:/

new boot loader?

2006-03-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I saw a message about a new rewritten boot loader on one of the DragonFly lists, but for some reason I can't find it now. Can someone point me to the thread? Jeremy C. Reed

Re: [OT] Disk sector size

2006-03-30 Thread joerg
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:17:00AM -0800, Ben Cadieux wrote: > Anyone have an idea why Windows and Linux are using the same ID for > their data partition? What are you meaning? Linux partitions normally have an ID of 131, Windows of 7 for NTFS or 11/12 (FAT). Extended partitions have an ID of 15,

Re: [OT] Disk sector size

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Cadieux
Anyone have an idea why Windows and Linux are using the same ID for their data partition? What's the point in having a much longer partition type ID if we're going to be overlapping anyway? That and...could we possibly find a worse way of storing it? "Note that only the first three blocks are by