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specific reason OpenBSD in MBR table id 3
hi bsd people,
is there any specific reason to initialize OpenBSD MBR partition to id 3? the default installation & fdisk -i wd0 would put OpenBSD MBR partition to the last, i am curious as of why it doesn't use the first id 0 when the whole MBR table is empty. thank you. |
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I really don't know.
It reminds of the Stone Age when I still was using DR-DOS. This MS-DOS compatible OS also used the last MBR partition. You can easily change the order by using the fdisk "swap" command: Code:
fdisk -e wd0 Enter 'help' for information fdisk: 1> help help Command help list manual Show entire OpenBSD man page for fdisk reinit Re-initialize loaded MBR (to defaults) setpid Set the identifier of a given table entry disk Edit current drive stats edit Edit given table entry flag Flag given table entry as bootable update Update machine code in loaded MBR select Select extended partition table entry MBR swap Swap two partition entries print Print loaded MBR partition table write Write loaded MBR to disk exit Exit edit of current MBR, without saving changes quit Quit edit of current MBR, saving current changes abort Abort program without saving current changes fdisk: 1>
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http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/fdisk/ |
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