My project wish-list for the next 12 months

[Scott Long]

Barney Wolff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:21:17PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
>>However, if the bios sees partition type 165 (FreeBSD), it freaks out 
>>and completely shuts down all USB support.  Even for the bios keyboard 
>>service calls.
>>
>>If you boot MSDOS, for example.. the bios keyboard service calls are not 
>>disabled and keep working.
> 
> 
> Pardon a naive question, but what would happen with a FreeBSD partition
> whose type said something other than 165?  What in fbsd checks the
> partition type once booting starts?
> 

It's very a fundamental value for being able to find and mount the
partitions at boot.

Scott