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.