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From: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:14:56 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050205111456.84321.qmail@web26503.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CxG9f-0005Yi-Sp@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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.



		
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-05 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.fng0mbi.10jm21g@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.ls0rpqi.104a23q@ifi.uio.no>
2005-02-05  2:58   ` 3TB disk hassles Bodo Eggert
2005-02-05 11:14     ` Neil Conway [this message]
     [not found] <linux.kernel.20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
2005-02-10  0:06 ` Jan Lindheim
2005-02-06 10:59 Neil Conway
2005-02-06 19:01 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-08 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-16 22:21 Rico Tudor
2004-12-16 14:52 Neil Conway
2004-12-16 15:33 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 15:37 ` Mark Watts
2004-12-16 15:38   ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-16 16:44     ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:15       ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 17:38         ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 18:05           ` Tomas Carnecky
2005-02-05  1:47             ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:40         ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 15:52   ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 16:03     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-16 16:00       ` Alan Cox
2004-12-18  0:12         ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18  3:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-18 12:15             ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 23:32               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 17:13                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 17:32                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 18:11                     ` linux-os
2004-12-16 17:10       ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 19:52 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-16 23:28 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2005-02-05  1:51   ` Neil Conway

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