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Re: ext2fs in a BSD slice
From: |
Jochen Hoenicke |
Subject: |
Re: ext2fs in a BSD slice |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:02:02 +0100 (MET) |
Hello Cedric,
On Dec 18, Cedric Ware wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE) and Linux (Debian 2.2r2) in
> the same BSD slice, and I am using GRUB to boot them. However, each
> of them uses its native filesystem (ufs/ffs and ext2fs respectively)
> and I noticed that GRUB would only mount the ext2 subpartition if it
> was marked as "other".
>
> Although FreeBSD did not assign a special code to ext2 subpartitions,
> both NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to agree on 17 for that use. I propose
> the following patch, inspired from /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h in
> Net and Open.
Thanks for your report. Your patch looks good. I applied it and
commited it to the CVS repository.
Jochen