Re: "Dynamic Disk Overlay": do debian boot and root ...

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

sde1000@cam.ac.uk (Stephen Early)  wrote on 28.01.96 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960128130244.16599C-100000@myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk>:

> On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
>
> > Are debian's boot and root disks able to deal with Ontrack "Dynamic
> > Disk Overlay" used on large IDE drives?
>
> As far as I know, Linux will not work at all with this program.

I seem to remember that support for several partition schemes like this  
has recently - whatever that means - added to the kernel. Newer kernels  
should probably work.


MfG Kai