Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264492AbVBELQZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:16:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263277AbVBELQY (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:16:24 -0500 Received: from web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.176.40]:60006 "HELO web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261739AbVBELO7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 06:14:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20050205111456.84321.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:14:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Neil Conway Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles To: 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 29 Hi... --- Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote: > No common x86 BIOS can understand any partition table. Booting is > done by > loading the first sector of the boot device and executing it. The > common D'oh!! Red-face here. Can't believe my brainlessness. Thanks for putting me straight - that explains a lot. Now to try it ;-) Neil PS: I should go back to sleep now, clearly not awake for the last month. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/