sdX - more than 16 partitions?

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Hermann J. Beckers wrote:
>
> My hdisk1 has 17 partitions. So far no problem for SuSE 10.2 and Ubuntu
> 6.06/6.10. But with the installation of 7.04 Ubuntu addresses it as sd* and
> that means a limit of 16 partitions. Searching the web shows it is a known
> problem. Suggested solution is to use LVM. But for me that means a lot of
> work destroying and recreating a lot of partitions.
>
> My question: Can I revert Ubuntu 7.04 to use the old ide/hda format?

Revert no.  If you did a new installation and didn't let the installer do 
the partitioning, then yes.


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