Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

[Darren Evans]

At 14:53 09/08/00 -0500, E. Larry Lidz wrote:
>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 

Yes, I meant A6 :-)

Darren

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