Re: [MiNT] Problems creating ext2 partitions with mke2fs (was: Language/keyboard selection and problems)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 08/10/11 11:41, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On 08/10/11 10:37, David Gálvez wrote:
>> 2011/8/10 Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>:
>>> LNX is the correct partition type. And you must reboot after setting it.
>>>
>> Reboot didn't help
>>
>>
>>> If you are getting "could not stat X:" then I suspect X: isn't the
>>> correct drive letter.
>>>
>> But doing "minit X:" works (when set to RAW), so this means is the
>> correct drive letter.
> It doesn't unfortunately. Can you list all of your drives with their
> current partition type ?

To add, basically HDDriver has a list of partitions it recognizes and
you can add your own to that list.

Now, normally LNX is on that list (I believe), so unless you've removed
LNX as a known partition, essentially
HDDriver will "ignore" it.

So, for example, if you have...

GEM C:
BGM D:
LNX E:
GEM F:

And LNX is not known to HDDRIVER,, then you really get....

GEM C:
BGM D:
GEM E:

I suspect in your case RAW is known so you'd get the drive letter E:

The partition type doesn't really have much meaning, but only to the
tools that interrogate it. It's really just
a label, nothing more fancy than that. Just make sure HDDriver knows
about the partition types you are
trying to use. If using RAW works, then it's really no different to LNX,
as I don't believe mke2fs checks for
LNX being the partition type anyway.

Alan.