Hi, while familiarizing myself with Grub, using grub-0_5_96_1-i386-pc.ext2fs dd'd to a floppy and booted from it, I once accidentially installed a Minix filesystem into a type-83-partition and only noticed my fault when the geometry-command of grub told me so: Partition num: 6, filesystem type is minix, partition type is 83 After correcting the fault grub told me: Partition num: 6, filesystem type is unknown, partition type is 81 Not only was the filesystem unknown, but the find command now also was unable to locate a file on that partition. Changing the partition type back to 83 gave again the minix / 83 result. I'm using a WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, 29333MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59598/16/63 according to the Linux boot log but with CHS=3739/255/63 according to BIOS and partition table. I testet several fs/pt combinations yielding the following table (+ filesystem is recognized, - filesystem is unknown): Filesystem F M A e i T 2 n 1 f i 6 s x Partition Type ----------------------- + - + 06 DOS FAT16 >32M + - + 0b Win95 FAT32 + - + 0c Win95 FAT32 LBA + - + 0e Win95 FAT16 LBA - - + 41 Linux/Minix (+DRDOS) - - + 43 Linux native (+DRDOS) - - + 63 GNU Hurd / Mach - - - 80 Minix until 1.4a - - - 81 Minix / old Linux - + + 83 Linux native - - + b7 BSDI fs - - + c6 DRDOS/sec FAT16 >32M - - + f2 DOS 3.3+ sec. To me that looks like Minix is recognized everywhere *except* on its own partition. Maybe a wrong negation in an if-statement? Best Regards Ralf Medow _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
