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RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies

Subject: RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies
From: Greg Lindahl (glindahl@hpti.com)
Date: Fri Mar 3 14:33:58 2000


> DOS partition tables are really brain-damaged (the 32-bit fields in
> them are unaligned, extended partitions are a mess, etc), so, except
> for the fact that the fdisk support for BSD disklabels as they're done
> on Alpha is somewhat broken at the moment, you might consider it a
> blessing rather than a curse :)

All this may be true, but I would prefer it if all Linux implementations
could use the same partition table... just like all RedHat distributions now
use the same /boot/vmlinuz convention.

-- g

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