>
> > Don't you wish we could talk bios makers into leaving DOS days behind and
> > getting into the 1990s at least before 2000. This whole
> > primary/extended/logical partition garbage should have died years ago.
I don't care if it dies on two of the four computers here, but the others
also run OS/2, NT and/or Winders95.
> >
>
> It's not the BIOS. It's DOS (and it's various unholy spawn.) BIOS will
> just be happy as pie to work with any partition scheme whatsoever.
Or even none:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc
I don't think I'd do it with a drive I want to boot though. But then
again, floppies boot...
> Linux supports at least five types of partition tables: DOS, BSD,
> Macintosh, Sun, and Solaris x86 (now why Solaris x86 doesn't use neither
> BSD nor Sun is a very good question.)
<Grumble> Where were you jokers when I was asking about partition tables>
</grumble>
It was actually cfdisk;-)
All by itself on a brand new disk. I have a very peculiar partition table
on another disk created with sfdisk...
However, the problem here is mkfs.ext2 being unhelpful and underdocumented.
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