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   Bit Twister to David W. Hodgins   
   Re: Where to go from Mandriva 2010   
   18 Nov 13 21:30:01   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:16:30 -0500, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:58:15 -0500, Bit Twister  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > Note that the 16 partition limit only existed for a few kernel   
   > versions. IIRC, it's now 64 partitions on a sata/ide drive,   
   > using a dos mbr style partition table.   
      
   Ok. I found when I had msdos partition table, I could not reach the   
   target boot loader partition when it was somewhere out past someting   
   xxxgig  location. Changed to gpt partition table and mbr grub had no   
   problems.   
      
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