From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: , Subject: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:59:15 +0200 Message-Id: <20000707105915.30418@mailhost.mipsys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi all ! Currently, the default partition type used by Linux/PPC on mac partition maps is Apple_UNIX_SVR2. This is historically the type used by Apple's A/ UX for its own partitions. However, I don't like it since it gives no indication on the type of filesystem on the partition, and I see no reason to keep it. So I suggest moving to Linux_ext2, Linux_swap, or maybe simply Linux and Linux_swap (since ext2 is not the only filesystem Linux may put on these). Using a different type for swap would help avoiding confusion. If everyone is ok, we can then update pdisk, and on my side, I'll update the kernel's root-auto-detect mecanism to take this into account. (The kernel will currently find by itself a root partition if it has the above type and the name "root" and no root= option was specified by the bootloader). Any comments ? Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/