On 11/11/2016 04:39 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:36:15 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Friday, November 11, 2016 04:58:41 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : >>>> The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical >>>> ones in one of the primary partitions. >>> >>> Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited. >> >> Ok, just to be part of this ongoing saga, I think the number of logical >> partitions is limited to something like 12 or 16 (or maybe the total number >> of >> partitions, primary plus logical is limited to 16. (And maybe that's a >> limit >> of one or more OSs rather than a universal limit.) > > That doesn't seem to square with > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".) > > Cheers, > David. > Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS partition scheme
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