On 29-Nov-2002 (01:34:27/GMT) Bruce Evans wrote: RT>>> I have 4 primary partitions and I use a boot manager (magic.com) [...] RT>>> As far as I know it use an EXOR 0x10 to hide/unhide but fdisk RT>>> doesn't recognize 0x0B/0x0C fat32 when hidden (0x1B/0x1C)
PHK>> I think this is very marginal use really... PHK>> But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't feel PHK>> it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is more widespread. BE> "Hiding" partitions is a bug IMO, so it should have negative BE> support. This convention would break many OS's conventions. BE> E.g., NextSTEP | 0x10 gives BSDI. Yes, indeed. Anyway 0x10-0x1F range seems to be for hidden partition, this is why I go the wrong way. Sorry for wasting time. :( If you check this you can find symmetric partition type (as written in .../fdisk.c,v 1.66 2002/10/27 10:52:54 phk): real ,{0x01, "Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT"} hidden ,{0x11, "OS/2 BM: hidden DOS with 12-bit FAT"} real ,{0x04, "Primary DOS with 16 bit FAT (< 32MB)"} hidden ,{0x14, "OS/2 BM: hidden DOS with 16-bit FAT (< 32MB)"} real ,{0x06, "Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB)"} hidden ,{0x16, "OS/2 BM: hidden DOS with 16-bit FAT (>= 32MB)"} real ,{0x07, "OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX"} hidden ,{0x17, "OS/2 BM: hidden IFS (e.g. HPFS)"} Only for this I added 0x1B/0x1C as hidden version of 0x0B/0x0C. real ,{0x0B, "DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT"} myidea ,{0x1B, "Hidden DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT"} real ,{0x0C, "DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)"} myidea ,{0x1C, "Hidden DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)"} Riccardo. PS: maybe XOR-0x10 only if <= 0x1F ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message