On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:10:02 +0100, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to
disklabels:
>Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Wednesday 24 November 2010,
>David W Noon did opine thusly:
>
>> >Errm, not exactly. SCSI
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 00:39:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010,
> Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
> > Just, if you happened to have 24 partitions, Windows would be ready
> > to label them all. Foresight? Windows? Must be a mirage.
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:19 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Peter
Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Tuesday 23 November 2010 23:54:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life,
>
> Well, you'd think so, but in my meddling days I hit my head on the
> ceiling. My other box
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 23:54:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 16 for SCSI is plenty in real life,
Well, you'd think so, but in my meddling days I hit my head on the
ceiling. My other box, with whatever version of IDE was current then,
had three more.
> and it's a hardware limitation not a softwa
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, David W
Noon did opine thusly:
> >Errm, not exactly. SCSI/SATAs are limited to 15 (inc. one extended
> >partition) and old (legacy driven) IDEs are limited to some 63
> >partitions if I recall correctly. If you use the new lib
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:10:03 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels:
>On Tuesday 23 November 2010 17:18:56 David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> The number of primary/extended partitions is limited to 4, and the
>> nu
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 17:18:56 David W Noon wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:20:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to
>
> disklabels:
> >On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote:
> &g
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:20:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to
disklabels:
>On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote:
>
>> What I suspect is in the remainder of that space is a hidden primary
On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:22:15 David W Noon wrote:
> What I suspect is in the remainder of that space is a hidden primary
> partition containing a "transparent" bootstrap that augments the BIOS
> and permits booting from a logical/extended partition. This would be
> similar to the old OS/2 B
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to
disklabels:
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
>> Your extended partition begins at sector 124. Any idea what is
>
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +, David W Noon wrote:
> >Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a
> >logical partition for more than six years.
>
> You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering
> non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standar
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels:
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +, David W Noon wrote:
>
>> Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot
>> have /boot on a logical partition -- on
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