[Tfug] Partition Second Drive

[DON KIERZEK]

Some people blame IBM for arbitrarily deciding on four partitions in the 
'80's and others say it is Intel which had a partition table installed as 
part of the boot sector and there was only space for four partitions.

All this stuff about IBM and Intel is very interesting but the important 
thing is that MY computer is now functional again.  Cheers to all!


>From: "Stephen Hooper" <stephen.hooper at gmail.com>
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>On 10/25/06, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:
> > As I remember it, and it's been a while, it didn't make any difference
> > if the partitions were primary. Linux found everything and booted to
> > it from Grub in the MBR. I'm sure they were logical partitions as I
> > partitioned with the Win98 installer which supports only one primary
> > partition. FreeBSD wanted a primary partition though.
> >
>
>Yes, you are right.  Hence the term MBR (Master boot record).  When a
>PC gets power it turns on the BIOS, reads the first sector of the
>harddrive, and loads code from there.  That code then loads the
>kernel, the kernel loads ...
>
>In other words, if that first sector has a piece of code on it that
>says make the user buzz binary into the microphone to enter the
>kernel, the computer would do that.
>
>The reason for only being able to have four primary partitions also
>lives in the MBR... it just is a long winded conversation, and is
>better explained by Googling.
>
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