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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: Notebook boot success
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.182923.25102@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <1552@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:29:23 GMT
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- In article <1552@lysator.liu.se> of comp.os.linux,
- lien@lysator.liu.se (Jan Lien) writes:
- > fdisk, and the needed logical drives. Then I changed one logical dos
- > drive to linux with linux fdisk, and this works. However linux seems
- > unable to recognize hda9 or hda10, maybe this is some compiled limit.
- > Before you embark on disk partitioning, study the dos partitions you
-
- mknod /dev/hda9 b 3 9
- mknod /dev/hda10 b 3 10
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- The rootdisk only supplies up to 8 for a limit of 7 partitions per disk.
- However, the kernel have support up to 63 for /dev/hd and 15 for /dev/sd.
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