Re: Hello everyone ...

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:36:53PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > | PROBING FOR AN AMIGA PARTITION TABLE.
> > | Reserved = 0, Prealloc = 0
> > | Cyl = 1057, Sect = 63, Head = 16, Sect*Head = 1008, CylBlocks = 1008
> > | Block size is 128
> > | AMIGA FFS : boot block detected FFS\3 
> > | AMIGA FFS : root block should be at 287280 (2016-572543:570528)
> > | AMIGA FFS : root-2 block : type = 1026176313, subtype = 1598254958, sum =
> > | 1968231241
> > | AMIGA FFS : root-1 block : type = 1937011297, subtype = 842283008, sum =
> > | 302493690
> > | AMIGA FFS : root+1 block : type = 741552950, subtype = 741552699, sum =
> > | -1510802252
> > | AMIGA FFS : root+2 block : type = 1634495599, subtype = 1601200498, sum =
> > | -1940758414
> > | AMIGA FFS : root block : type = 1599038058, subtype = 976433203, sum =
> > | -463838221
> 
> The root block is not found, but then you have 0 reserved blocks here.
> 
> > | Reserved = 0, Prealloc = 0
> > | Cyl = 1057, Sect = 63, Head = 16, Sect*Head = 1008, CylBlocks = 1008
> > | Block size is 128
> > | Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-520.242 megabytes
> > | Disk label type: amiga
> > | Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
> > | 1          0.984    279.562  ext2        
> > | 2        279.562    520.242  ext2       
> > 
> > Which is OK.
> 
> But i suppose that the first partition has a wrong boot block of DOS\3
> type, but since libparted does more advanced checking, and doesn't find
> the root block, it is correcly detected as ext2.

I used to use that disk for Lilo testing, too. AmigaOS cannot boot from
partitions that have an unknown ID in the first u32 of the partition, so it had
to be one of the DOS* types.

So yes, you can have a DOS* type in the first u32, but a different file system.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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