On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:53:44PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/15/2013 2:43 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > They are mapped at runtime; essentially you would see /dev/sda1 > > (/dev/sda3? whatever) as an alias to /dev/sda. > > Linux won't allow this, so the best thing parted will be able to do is > ignore the partition and you won't actually get the runtime mapping.
I'm not sure why Linux wouldn't allow it, but it wouldn't really matter anyway; Linux doesn't need to access this partition, it's the other OS that would need to. > >> How can I reproduce this? > > Not easily at all. You'd need hardware of a particular > > architecture, and a copy of a proprietary Unix, to natively create > > a relevant disklabel or to validate that the disklabel is > > compatible. > Is there some sort of flag in the disklabel that indicates this is > such a partition? Not that I recall. It's been many years since I've seen such a disk. > Or should this bug just be closed? Doesn't matter to me. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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