On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net> writes:I posted a patch a couple years ago that added that type to the bsd disklabel partition code (calls the raid autodetect funct). It was rejected by alan cox cuz no one knew if digital unix uses FD. If can find it, if anyone wants it. It would probably need some work for 2.6, but that should be easy.Irelevant since Debian kernels don't use kernel autodetect anyway. Only works if raid is compiled in, not as module.
The partitioner in debian-installer does look at the partition type to determine whether or not to load partman-md. And since it's a fresh partition that's been created there's no md signature to detect.
James Andrewartha