On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:01:41AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > In an excess of energy I decided to see how many different OSes I > could install to compare their behavior with a weird X bug I > encountered in FC6: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8790 > > I figured 20 gig was about enough for each root, and decided to > create 7 small /boot partitions near the front of the disk (since > so many boot loaders have problems with big addresses) and 7 20 > gig partitions after that for different kernels (my disk is a 160 > gig sata drive). > > Windows has no problems doing this, but fdisk -l won't print any > info about partitions after /dev/sda15 and if I try to install > FC5 on a system that actually has an sda16 and sda17 partition > (even if I don't try to use them for anything), anaconda blows up > at the partitioning stage when it is about to try to partition > and install. > > If I go back to windows, delete the last two partitions, and > re-install, all goes smoothly. > > Is there some rule I don't know about on the number of > partitions? Or is it a rule about the starting address of a > partition (can't be too big maybe)? > > Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and > bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-). Tom: Isn't there a 16-partition limit on a disk using the MSDOS partiton scheme? (which Linux does use) Or so I've heard. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------
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