FAQ bug

[Andries . Brouwer]

I was just trying to find out how to do "lilo -R label" with grub.
Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page
with a GNU program? Came to the FAQ section in the info file.
It says:

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GRUB does not recognize my GNU/Hurd partition.
     I don't know why, but the authors of FDISK programs have assigned
     the partition type `0x63' to GNU Hurd incorrectly. A partition type
     should mean what format is used in the partition, such as
     filesystem and BSD slices, and should not be used to represent
     what operating system owns the partition. So use `0x83' if the
     partition contains ext2fs filesystem, and use `0xA5' if the
     partition contains ffs filesystem, whether the partition owner is
     Hurd or not. We will use `0x63' for GNU Hurd filesystem that has
     not been implemented yet.
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Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different,
perhaps that would have been more convenient to grub, but reality
is that the partition type does not indicate the filesystem.
Not only does that fail for Hurd, it fails all over the place.
For example, 0x83 is Linux (xiafs or ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs or ...).

So, anything that assumes a connection between partition type
and filesystem type is a bug, and in particular this FAQ entry
is a bug.

Andries