recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type?

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Sun Jun 28 21:51:10 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:11:16PM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> >Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> >>But with limited space we probably should just decide to not worry 
> >>about anything older than Windows XP...
> >
> >How about not worrying about NetBSD or OpenBSD?  How many people 
> >typically multi-boot OpenBSD?

I was about to suggest that -- in terms of popularity,
the various FAT alternatives versions are by far more common.

> Another benefit of dropping MS OSes older than Windows XP is removing 
> all references to "DOS" when displaying the boot menu.

this is already gone. There is a DOS string but almost always it maps
to Windows due to space constraints.

cheers
luigi


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