On Mar 21, 2006, at 13:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> And how do you set other types? I could boot with a ghost 9 rescue
> CD (which I did not bring with me) and edit the partition table.
> But is there a Linux tool to do this?
You can boot from the CentOS installation CD and type "linux rescue"
at the prompt. And then use fdisk (type m for help as the command
prompt says).
> oh, so a0 is a partition type. What IS the partition type that
> Linux makes for its boot, swap, and EXT3 filesystems? How do I see
> this without something like Ghost recovery?
Again, fdisk is your friend:
[root@centos ~]# fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2231.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): l
0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 75 PC/IX be
Solaris boot
1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 80 Old Minix bf Solaris
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 81 Minix / old Lin c1 DRDOS/
sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 82 Linux swap c4 DRDOS/
sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 83 Linux c6 DRDOS/
sec (FAT-
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 84 OS/2 hidden C: c7 Syrinx
6 FAT16 42 SFS 85 Linux extended da Non-FS
data
7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 86 NTFS volume set db CP/M /
CTOS / .
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 87 NTFS volume set de Dell
Utility
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS
access
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs
f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI
(FAT-12/16/
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/
PA-RISC b
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1
SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4
SpeedStor
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS
secondary
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux
raid auto
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT
1c Hidden W95 FAT3
Alfred
