new partition

[Monty J. Harder]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:02:55 -0600 "Duston, Hal"
<hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com> writes:
> Since Linux doesn't use bios after loading the kernel, this 
> should not be an issue for it.  
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html 
> has an excellent discussion and history of these issues.

> > Wow, I didn't know you could have a /dev/hda9.  Though bios 
> > only allowed eight
> > partitions on an IDE device.  /dev/hda1-4 are primary and 

  Not only that, but the BIOS does not address partitions at all.   That
is a higher level of abstraction altogether.
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