Chris Abbey wrote:
>
> At 19:14 11/14/99 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1108 cylinders
> >Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
> >
> > Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System
> >/dev/hda1 63 32129 32067 83 Linux
> >/dev/hda2 32130 17800019 17767890 5 Extended
> >/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 Empty
> >/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 Empty
> >
> >/dev/hda5 32193 4128704 4096512 83 Linux
> > - 16579080 17800019 1220940 5 Extended
> > - 32130 32129 0 0 Empty
> > - 32130 32129 0 0 Empty
> >
> >/dev/hda6 16579143 17800019 1220877 83 Linux
> > - 16579080 16579079 0 0 Empty
> > - 16579080 16579079 0 0 Empty
> > - 16579080 16579079 0 0 Empty
>
> Call me crazy, but it looks like you're trying to put an extended partition
> into an extended patition. Last I checked nested extended partitions weren't
> legal.
Incorrect. An extended partition is actually a linked list of nested
extended partitions, just as you see above. Yes, it's insane.
> 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.
>
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.
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.)
-hpa
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