[clue-tech] Installfest hot wash.

[David L. Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:14:45 -0700
> David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 
>>Well, it's a feature of the DOS partition table.  fdisk understands BSD 
>>disklabels and can create Sun disklabels.  So you aren't forced to use 
>>the DOS style (and I didn't on my old Alpha).
> 
> Soooo ....
> 
> If I were to partition a HD using a different labelling type, would Linux
> install/boot okay?

Yes.  At least it did on the Alpha.  There could be some hardware 
restrictions on x86 since the BIOS requires some things out of the MBR 
(where the partition table lives).  Hmm...  Perhaps the BIOS needs (at 
least in some cases) to read the partition table, since it's possible to 
put boot loaders on partition boot sectors.

If you have a spare disk try putting a Sun disklabel on it.  I'll try it 
next time I work on an install but that won't be soon.

Dave