It looks like my problems were threefold:
1) Red Hat 5.1's fdisk is old already.
2) When you fdisk the drive you've got root mounted off of (even
read-only), linux-2.1.125 (and possibly earlier) won't reread the partition
table, and with 2.1.125 it *seemed* like it wouldn't even *write* the table
out to disk with root mounted read-only on it. It's a check in
drivers/scsi/sd.c, and my bare minimum usage is 2 (ioctl + /), not 1
(ioctl). I'm not sure whether or not it's a good idea to change this...
3) Between those two problems, I never got around to realizing that the
modern kernel does indeed recognize the new partition type numbers.
Keith (I hates rescue floppies...)
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