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Hi everyone, I extracted this from the grub sourcecode: /* possible values for the *BSD-style partition type */ . . . #define FS_EXT2FS 17 /* Linux Extended 2 file system */ It would actually meet my partitioning requirements to register a partition inside one of my slices as ext2 (I currently mask the partition type as ISO9660(!) and use a *patched* grub, so you see this situation

...e you can change this in FreeBSD and NetBSD too. The other thing is that /dev/sda5 will not always be there. The problem is the weird way the kernel maps the disklabel partitions: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/block/partitions/msdos.c#L303-L310 The kernel will not map a disklabel subpartition if it has the same boundaries with the parent (MBR) partition or if its boundaries exceed the disklabel. In the disklabel's partition table 'a' is always the root partition, 'b' is the swap, in OpenBSD and FreeBSD 'c' is the full hard disk. In NetBSD 'c' is t...

Hi everyone. I'm a big Free Software enthusiast and, therefore, I would very much like to use the nouveau free driver, instead of the proprietary one. My problem is that, looking for the cheapest option available, when I needed to buy a new graphics card, 2 years ago, I decided for a model from a brand that I had never heard of - called "Gainward" - because I thought it had a

This patch set should make it easier to maintain PV-GRUB2 installations. The general idea is based on discussions I had with Xen developers (mainly Ian Jackson) at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in May 2011; though I never did manage to get the core port done and Vladimir beat me to that, I think the configuration approach we discussed there is still valid and useful. The idea here is that people