[haiku-development] Re: boot manager error
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:29:39 +0200
Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > When a partition is created, it is actually created with the type of
> > the file system, I thought one could create a partition and then decide
> > on
> > the file system, wrong. Need to get back to that sometimes...
>
> Actually, you can the type of the file system later on, too. It's just a
> one byte identifier in the partition table (for each partition).
Yes, but not from the point of view in the current Intel Partition Map
add-on. It exports the types of partitions it can create, and this is not
"Intel Primary Partition", but instead something like "BFS" or "Linux
Swap". This is not taken into account in the Drive Setup GUI at all, and
more specifically, I don't know if it should even work like that. Maybe
that's why Linux has "Linux Native" as a partition type. Maybe we should
just reuse that one. Since the design is supposed to be generic, how does
this work for example in the EFI partition layout?
Best regards,
-Stephan
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