On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:43:09AM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > The UEFI specification specifies support for nested MSDOS labels (MSDOS > labels that include partitions in which another MSDOS partition table can > be nested). This is not talking just about extended partitions, but > about the ability to arbitrarily nest MSDOS partition tables. I can't > point you to a specific implementation that uses that functionality, but > the fact that it's specified should be enough to allow us to be flexible > here. Why limit the nesting if architecturally it's not a problem to > support (as Vladimir's existing implementation already supports arbitrary > nesting).
Note that it is very easy for Intel to specify and implement that: in their world there's only one partition label type (plus another one which is backward compatible with the first). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
