Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

[E. Larry Lidz]

Pavel Roskin writes:
>Hello, Darren!
>
>> I read on usenet that it does, you have to patch the code so it recognises
>> A7 partition id for OpenBSD, just change whatever it expects to A7.
>
>Linux fdisk thinks that A7 is NeXTSTEP. Well, if both OpenBSD and NeXTSTEP
>use A7 for BSD disklabels it should be Ok to support it.
>
>Now A5, A6, A7 and A9 will be recognized as BSD disklabels. Anybody knows
>about A8? It would be nice to check a range.

I think it's A6, not A7 for OpenBSD. At least, my (non-functional)
OpenBSD partition is A6. I think that the patch he's refering to was
for an older version of Grub, though I wouldn't swear to it.

-Larry