Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:10:20AM -0700, Bogdan wrote:
> Only one of the 4 primary partitions can be active. So, turn whatever is not 
> needed into an extended partition. What tools with this screw over? Or, are 
> we 
> talking about OSes that don't support extended partitions here?

That would probably require resizing the filesystem since a logical
partition needs to leave space for the extended partition table, not to
mentioned screw up alignment of partitions too.

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Len Sorensen