On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I found it somewhat irritating that grub refused to mount my Hurd > > partition unless I set the partition type to Linux native. The following > > patch will allow ext2 filesystems on GNU/Hurd partitions (type 0x63) as > > well. Maybe the whole sanity check regarding partition types should be > > dropped? > > We who wrote GNU/Hurd found it somewhat irritating that someone (we know > not who) decided to pick a random partition type number and call it "GNU > HURD". > I'm sure it was done with the best of intentions, but what its > purpose or meaning is remains a mystery (to me anyway) and seems to serve > just to confuse well-meaning folks like yourself.
I see. Thanks for pointing this out. Confusing it is indeed. Duh! Regards, Daniel.
