Re: [Hampshire] Unidentified partitions

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Unidentified partitions
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:21:48PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Has your linux kernel been build to support non-x86 partitions?
> Support for non-x86 partitions on a x86 kernel is normally not
> included by default.
> In your kernel source dir:
> make menuconfig
> ->File systems->Partition Types
>


Ubuntu seems to include quite a few non x86 in its kernel.

alan@tp:~$ grep PART /boot/config-2.6.22-14-generic
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ADFS is not set
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA is not set
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX is not set
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ICS=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_POWERTEC is not set
CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_RISCIX=y
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION=""
CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y
CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS=m
# CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY is not set
# CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED is not set
CONFIG_SYSV68_PARTITION=y
alan@tp:~$


Chers,
Al.