Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

Tim Fletcher (tim@parrswood.manchester.sch.uk)
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:49:36 +0000 (GMT)


> What is the difference between physical and logical partitions ?

primary (what you call physical) partitions are partitions in their own
right logical partitions are partitions within a special partition

> How does this solve the "I deleted hda5 and now the old hda6 became
> hda5" problem ?

It doesn't nothing can as the way that the pcbios extended partition works
as a (linked?) list of partitions so removing one shuffles the rest up.

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