Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip of questions I leave for others...] Does anyone know the MS/IBM approved codes for the various types 6 = DOS FAT16 ? = DOS FAT32 FAT32 and FAT16 are both 6. Wrong. 4 is DOS FAT 16 32mb 6 is DOS FAT 16 32mb 11 is DOS/Win9X FAT32 12 is DOS/Win9X FAT32 LBA (rarely actually used) When I partitioned the drive on the box that I'm using at this very minute, I gave type 6 to my DOS partitions. Those partitions currently house FAT32 filesystems. Your sure it still is type 6 after your ran fat32 format??? IOW, in practice, I doubt it matters if you assign 6 or 11 to a DOS partition. I am not sure on that, I've never seen a type 6 fat32, but then I have never purposefully tried to create one either. Win9x OSr2 and later fdisk creates them as type 11 if you answer yes to the Enable large disk question, if they are larger than some magic number, otherwise it just creates type 6 partitions. The magic size is either 504MB or 2G, can't recall right now. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
You guys talk about a 'duel boot'. But as far as I go a duel is an opposition. It should be 'dual' caused by the composition. Maarten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
Maarten van Schie wrote: You guys talk about a 'duel boot'. But as far as I go a duel is an opposition. It should be 'dual' caused by the composition. That might be a nice situation, but as soon as there is more than one O/S on a system they are both fighting for control, take as a prime example the system clock... So I think a duel boot is by definition a better description of for what we are talking about! Happy knit picking! Kal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: Maarten van Schie wrote: You guys talk about a 'duel boot'. But as far as I go a duel is an opposition. It should be 'dual' caused by the composition. That might be a nice situation, but as soon as there is more than one O/S on a system they are both fighting for control, take as a prime example the system clock... So I think a duel boot is by definition a better description of for what we are talking about! I never realy encountered problems confronting Windows with Linux or Windows with FreeBSD, so that's not realy true. If others do I reccon they force them to(?). Maarten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
Maarten van Schie wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kal Torak wrote: Maarten van Schie wrote: You guys talk about a 'duel boot'. But as far as I go a duel is an opposition. It should be 'dual' caused by the composition. That might be a nice situation, but as soon as there is more than one O/S on a system they are both fighting for control, take as a prime example the system clock... So I think a duel boot is by definition a better description of for what we are talking about! I never realy encountered problems confronting Windows with Linux or Windows with FreeBSD, so that's not realy true. If others do I reccon they force them to(?). Obviously you have never tried to have a system use UTC... Any playing with BIOS settings would eventually break things in one system (eg. PnP O/S Installed, CardBuss mode, various other resource settings) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Boot ManagerQuestions
On Sunday 31 December 2000 02:04, Kal Torak wrote: Chris BeHanna wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...snip of questions I leave for others...] Does anyone know the MS/IBM approved codes for the various types 6 = DOS FAT16 ? = DOS FAT32 FAT32 and FAT16 are both 6. Actually I think you can specify FAT16 as 4 Maybe not, I just seem to remember it like that... 165 = FreeBSD ? = others There might be a special value for a hibernate partition. I don't know it, though. The only others I know are: 131 = Linux ext2fs 130 = Linux swap 99 = ISC Unix All the IBM laptops I have seen use a file on a standard FAT16 or 32 partition for hibernating, that doesn't mean thats for all of them, but chances are it would be a file rather than a whole partition... DOS fdisk will allow only 4 partitions on a drive, only one of these can be a primary partition, the others have to be extended partitions... So long as you didnt create the DOS partitions with sysinstall it shouldn't care about them Correction:. You are allowed 4 primary partitions, one of which can be extended and can contain logical partititons. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
