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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 23:21:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: No support for slices?
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Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> wrote:

> It does support partitioning (disklabel style), but it doesn't have to
> use fdisk style slices.
> SRM doesn't care about partition style at all - it takes the bootrecord
> and that's it.

IIRC, SRM excepts bootrecord information in the same place taken
up by incompatible information in an fdisk-style MBR.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de