Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd

[walt]

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:14 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
> >  your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o)  I think that problem
> >  is not worth your time or mine.
> 
> BTW, how big is your ufs partition ? I have tested FreeBSD 6.3, NetBSD
> 4.0 and OpenBSD 4.2 in a 1G virtual disk, they all seems ok, perhaps
> if the disk is larger, the problem would occur.

Hah!  I think I found the problem.  I just noticed that gparted calls my
openbsd/ufs partition an *ext2* filesystem!  I seem to recall similar
messages from other fs utility programs about the magic number being
for ext2 even though it's really ufs.  This is probably a leftover
magic number from an earlier linux or such.

I haven't found any way to change just the magic number instead of
deleting the partition and starting over.  Do you know of an easy
way to do it?  I could use a hex disc editor but I don't know where
the magic number is, exactly.

Thanks!