Re: partition types (again :)

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:

> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > I'm talking about an IBM RS/6000,
> > and the firmware uses partitions of type 0x41 on DOS partition maps to boot
> > from.
> 
> Weird!  The firmware is broken then, since DOS partition tables
> have a separate flag for "bootable".

It's broken in a few ways. Unfortunately assigning it that label doesn't
change much... :)

> > My previous claims about needing 0x41 still stand. :)
> 
> Anyway, looking at Andries' list at
> 
> http://www.win.tue.nl/math/dw/personalpages/aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
> 
> it looks like this is a Windows 2000 thing.

No, it seems to have it right (if lacking details):
"41 PPC PReP (Power PC Reference Platform) Boot"

> Anyway, Parted can't manipulate the low-level partition type.
> To manipulate this, we would need to add another flag, or
> file system, or something.

That's what I was afraid of... will that functionality ever happen? As
others have noted, whether we like them or not these partition types can be
important to various BIOS (the other example I just skimmed was someone's
APM depending on a RAM-on-disk partition iirc)...

I understand that it seems to break your model. :( Both personally (as a
user) and for an installer (which current uses only parted) I need to be
able to create these partitions. I can probably work around it, I just dream
of using parted all the time. ;)

-Hollis