Re: boot-floppies auto partitioning & hardware detection
Then we would probably need arch specific default partitioning strings.
Do all arches support fdisk? Then we could simply have different schemes
depending on arch.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:04:36PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
>
> > partition_config.c : If there is only one drive, assume that is the drive we
> > want to partition. FIXME: do we like this?
> > Ask the user if they want to auto partition the drive. If so then take the first
> > drive and divide it into 3 partitions boot 20M, swap 200M and root (rest of space).
>
> is this code intended to be portable, or #if #cpu(i386) ?
>
> if its meant to be portable note that not all archs can boot from a
> boot sector, most powerpcs for example require an 800K bootstrap
> partition where the bootblocks are installed, depending on the subarch
> this will be a Apple_Bootstrap type (macs, mac partition tables) or
> 0x41 (PReP, IBM CHRP, msdos partition tables).
>
> ia64 also requires a similar bootstrap partition.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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