[ltp] Need a crash course on T60 boot loaders, SVP

[Igor V. Rafienko]

on Dec 18, 2006, 20:04, James PEARSON wrote:

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> How does one identify the partition "type" (e.g. 0x0b vs 0x12 vs...)?
> Neither "parted" nor "fdisk" give me this type of information.


fdisk certainly does:

lapdance ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep Compaq
/dev/sda2           12376       12921     4127760   12  Compaq diagnostics

(12 == 0x12 in this case)


>> Eh, no, again. grub is installed here (T43) on /dev/sda3 and everything is
>> running peachy.
>
> And /dev/sda3 is your extended (e.g. W95 Ext'd (LDA)) partition? yes/no


No, /dev/sda3 is one of the primary partitions:

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        3230    24418768+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           12376       12921     4127760   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda3   *        3231        3235       37800   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            3236       12375    69098400    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            3236        3302      506488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            3303       12375    68591848+  8e  Linux LVM


> question: I figure that one can install the boot loader in just about 
> any partition. True/false?  All comments welcome!


Yes, you can do that.

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> Noted for testing in the future, after I get around to re installing the 
> hidden partition which deleted that is :)


Well, you can live quite fine without the hidden partition. It all depends 
on what kind of functionality you require.





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