Bug#293481: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: Cannot open root device

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:21:43PM +0000, Nigel Stephens wrote:

> I also wonder if  the fact that my Linux root partition (hda5) is inside 
> an "extended" partition (see my original report) could that be causing a 
> problem for the kernel?

No, this is the normal PC partitioning scheme and the root
partition can be on any of the partitions. The "extended"
partition has historical reasons: the original PC partition table
layout allowed only four ("primary") partitions. To be able to
address more than four, the so-called "extended partition" was
invented, which is in principle a normal partition with an
additional sub-partitiontable and sub-partitions ("logical
drives") inside the partition. For the Linux kernel it does
not make a difference whether to use a "primary" partition
or a "logical drive".

Regards,
Karsten
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