At 01:15 PM 3/21/2006, Alfred von Campe wrote:
>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).
Great, thanks.
I am putting points like this into my Freemind Linux notes...
>>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
I will give this a go. With the cylinder info (as you show below, I
can more intelligently place the partitions.
>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
>
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