What operating systems must boot from a Primary Partition? Which do not?
Operating systems such as DOS and Windows must boot from a primary partition. Linux does not, and may actually use resources from multiple partitions to facilitate its needs.
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What is now the standard x86 partition design?
The x86 partitioning system uses up to four primary partitions, one of
which can be a placeholder extended partition that contains logical partitions.
which can be a placeholder extended partition that contains logical partitions.
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Under Linux, what numbers are primary and extended partitions assigned? Provide examples.
One through four.
Examples:
Examples:
- The third primary partition on the second SCSI disk would be /dev/sdb3
- The first primary partition on the first PATA disk would be /dev/hda1
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Author: Ryan Robson
Main topic: Informatics
Topic: Linux
City: Houston
Published: 08.02.2011
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