John Summerfield wrote:
>
> >
> > > 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.
>
> I don't care if it dies on two of the four computers here, but the others
> also run OS/2, NT and/or Winders95.
> > >
> >
> > 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.
>
> Or even none:
> mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc
> I don't think I'd do it with a drive I want to boot though. But then
> again, floppies boot...
As long as you install LILO in the MBR (= the main hard disk boot
sector) it will boot just fine, thank you.
> > 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.)
>
> <Grumble> Where were you jokers when I was asking about partition tables>
> </grumble>
>
> It was actually cfdisk;-)
> All by itself on a brand new disk. I have a very peculiar partition table
> on another disk created with sfdisk...
> However, the problem here is mkfs.ext2 being unhelpful and underdocumented.
>
?!? This isn't a function of mkfs.ext2, and I think it is quite well
documented, thank you.
-hpa
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