sdX - more than 16 partitions?

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Hermann J. Beckers wrote:
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>> 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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I'm curious why one would have 16 partitions ....

Must be dual booting 3 or more OS's yes?