Re: [Mactel-linux-users] reasons to use elilo

[Mildred <ml....@on...>]

Le Tue 29/05/2007 =E0 13:56 Tino Keitel =E0 =E9crit:
> If you don't want to mess around with a DOS partition table, you have
> to use elilo.
>=20
> As the GPT doesn't have such a thing like "extended partitions", and a
> DOS partition table can only have 4 primary partitions, you end up
> with 4 partitions as a maximum. As in most scenarios 2 partitions are
> already occupied by the EFI boot loader and MacOS X, you only have 2
> partitions left for Linux.

Well, if you linux system is on a primary partition, you have no limits.

On m system I don"t use elilo (but refit and grub) and my Linux root
partition is on a primary partition so I can boot on it.
And after boot, Linux recognizes the GPT partition scheme and can use
swap on a GPT partition only.

At first, I thought that Linux won't recognize the GPT partitions if I
boot with the legacy BIOS but that's not the case.
Just to make it clear

Mildred
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