Re: EFI amd64: boot.cfg goes where?

On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 10:14:46PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> In ancient MBR partitioning, the small number of partitions (and the
> chain lookup required for the add on "extended" partitions) meant that
> it made sense for OS's that like multiple partitions to supply their own
> labelling scheme inside "their" partition.   With GPT there is no need for
> that, the default partition table size (and strictly, according to the
> spec, its minimum size - though nothing I have ever seen enforces that)
> allows for 128 partitions, and you can easily create a much bigger GPT
> with the potential for thousands of partitions if you wanted.
> 

With the caveat that the number of /dev/dk* is, by default, 32 [0-31].
So you might make a lot of partitions, and end up unable by default to
mount them.
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