From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 05:39:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 05:39:45 -0400 Received: from mailhost.tue.nl ([131.155.2.5]:14368 "EHLO mailhost.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 05:39:37 -0400 Message-ID: <20010517113924.B9270@win.tue.nl> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 11:39:24 +0200 From: Guest section DW To: "Albert D. Cahalan" , Mauelshagen@sistina.com Cc: thomasko321k@gmx.at (Thomas Kotzian), helgehaf@idb.hist.no (Helge Hafting), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants In-Reply-To: <20010516185845.A14397@sistina.com> <200105170635.f4H6Ztq456282@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <200105170635.f4H6Ztq456282@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from Albert D. Cahalan on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:35:55AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > The PC partition table has such an ID. The LILO change log > mentions it. I think it's 6 random bytes, with some restriction > about being non-zero. You are confused. The partition table contains IDs, but these are the numbers like 83 for a Linux partition. No disk-identifying numbers.