Re: Inconsistent support for dvh disk labels

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:57:27PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Parted shows the bootable partition of the dvh disk label as an extended
> partition and the boot files in this partition are showed as logical
> partition.  However the support of the boot files is not fully
> functional.  We think that parted should either have fully functional
> support for these or the mapping boot-file<->logical partition should be
> removed.
> 
> The future development of the installer will depend on your opinion
> about this bug, so I will appreciate if you share it to me.

My opinion is: this logical partition thing was a hack that some people
might have found useful - but probably not.  I'm leaning towards
removing this "feature".

I can't see any elegant way of adding full support... the boot partition
thing is more like a file system than a partition table.  The goal
of libparted is to make everything look the same, and keep it simple
as far as possible.

Cheers,
Andrew