recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type?

Aragon Gouveia aragon at phat.za.net
Sun Jun 28 11:36:17 UTC 2009


Hi,

I recently installed 8.0 from the June snapshot ISO.  I noticed that the 
new boot0 code has had partition type 0xc removed as a recognised 
partition type.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S.diff?r1=1.21;r2=1.22;f=h

That ID is used by FAT32 partitions so in my case I'm getting a "?" on 
my Windows partition.  If it was removed to save space, I think 0xb 
would be more appropriate for removal - it is the non-LBA equivalent of 
0xc and I don't think any modern Windows partitioner sets it anymore.


Thanks,
Aragon


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