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Grub doesn't recognize Minix in its own partition, but everywhere else
From: |
Ralf Medow |
Subject: |
Grub doesn't recognize Minix in its own partition, but everywhere else |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Dec 2000 04:11:30 +0100 |
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
- Grub doesn't recognize Minix in its own partition, but everywhere else,
Ralf Medow <=