Re: partition counting for Alpha
On Friday, 27 Nov, David van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> Q: Is there a maximum of 4 primary partitions, even for SCSI/Alpha (I
> thought that that limit was a MSDOS/Bios/IDE limit). I believe SUN
> uses many partition on a singe SCSI disk.
>
Yes. SUN, BSD, Digital UNIX use different partitioning scheme that
allows for 8 partitions. Microsoft, however, has shamelessly yet
carefully brought in the traditional PCish partition table stuff that
has 4 primary partitions and that ugly hack called extended partitions.
As long as you use ARC/AlphaBIOS console, you can only boot from a
PC-style partitioned hard drive.
As for MILO and partitions, I think 2.0.35-based Debian MILOs would see
them in a normal way.
Nikita
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