Re: Re: LBA48 partitioning scheme

On Sunday 05 June 2005 05:26, Laurence Lee wrote:
> I've been following this thread with interest.
>
> IMHO, adding support for the flexible partition table scheme can only add
> to the usefulness of Xbox-Linux in a "Stealth" operating environment,
> where C through E are preserved for gaming (with original dashboard), and
> F: and G: are available as add-on partitions.
>
> In an ideal setting, I'd be able to patch a Microsoft BIOS to allow me to
> recognize F: with any size I want -- not just the standard choices of "up
> to 137G" or "all remaining space on your upgraded disk".  Same for G:.
> Looks like the zip file posted earlier allows exactly this.  Thanks!

You already can without this.  Just create a normal PC partition table on the 
disk, that describes the partitions you want for F & G.

That's precisely what Xebian does.   It just means that the MS bios wouldn't 
have access to them - which, seeing as you'd make them native linux 
filesystems, and not fatx, in a sensible world, that that's what you would 
want.

The MS bios doesn't have a partition table that describes C->E - the offsets 
are hardcoded within it, so it doesn't care what you do with the boot sector 
of the drive.

David

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