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Re: Partitions

Subject: Re: Partitions
From: Foz <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>
Date: Jan 21 2000 09:04:46 EST

>
> Partions etc are not a feature of the hard drive - they are an artifact
> of DOS. All PC BIOS's are written to expect the first few sectors on the
> disk to contain the MDR and the boot block etc. If they cant find it
> they can't boot, and so can't load the OS of your choice.
>
Hmmm... Ok, if that is the case, why is Linux, (a different OS as
far as I can tell) restricted to the DOS partition format?

Cheers

Paul Aspinall
Manchester Met. Uni

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