bascule wrote:
> when using lilo to hide partitions in the past i have relied on the examples i
> found online and in man lilo.conf, but now that i wish to alter the id of the
> extended partition (so that both os/2 and winxp will both work) i can't find
> any confirmation of the appropriate nomenclature.
> the examples that i can find, for example:
> set=DOS16_big_normal
> or
> set=NTFS_normal
> do not actually coincide with the partition id list given by fdisk so i'm not
> sure if it is safe to just put:
> change
> partition=/dev/hda2
> set=0x05
> and so forth; the extended partition is a primary partition so i'm assuming
> it's id can be changed (i read that this can't be done for logical
> partitions)
> can anyone tell me what the nomenclature is for the set= line to change the
> extended partition to id 05 (Extended) and to 0f (ExtendedX)
Use FDISK to change it to 05 and leave it that way. 0F is for W95OSR2,
W98, and WME. NT and its derivatives aren't so brain dead as to require
a non-standard extended type to know how to deal with a big disk. See
below URL for more.
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