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- <sect2 arch="x86"><title>Partitioning for &arch-title;</title>
-<para>
-
-The PC BIOS generally adds additional constraints for disk
-partitioning. There is a limit to how many <quote>primary</quote> and
-<quote>logical</quote> partitions a drive can contain. Additionally, with pre
-1994-98 BIOS, there are limits to where on the drive the BIOS can boot
-from. More information can be found in the
- <ulink url="&url-partition-howto;">Linux Partition HOWTO</ulink> and the
-<ulink url="&url-phoenix-bios-faq-large-disk;">Phoenix BIOS FAQ</ulink>, but
-this section will include a brief overview to help you plan most
-situations.
-
-</para><para>
-
-<quote>Primary</quote> partitions are the original partitioning scheme for PC
-disks. However, there can only be four of them. To get past this
-limitation, <quote>extended</quote> and <quote>logical</quote> partitions were invented. By
-setting one of your primary partitions as an extended partition, you
-can subdivide all the space allocated to that partition into logical
-partitions. You can create up to 60 logical partitions per extended
-partition; however, you can only have one extended partition per
-drive.
-
-</para><para>
-
-Linux limits the partitions per drive to 15 partitions for SCSI disks
-(3 usable primary partitions, 12 logical partitions), and 63
-partitions on an IDE drive (3 usable primary partitions, 60 logical
-partitions). However the normal &debian; system provides
-only 20 devices for partitions, so you may not install on partitions
-higher than 20 unless you first manually create devices for those
-partitions.
-
-</para><para>
-
-If you have a large IDE disk, and are using neither LBA addressing,
-nor overlay drivers (sometimes provided by hard disk manufacturers),
-then the boot partition (the partition containing your kernel image)
-must be placed within the first 1024 cylinders of your hard drive
-(usually around 524 megabytes, without BIOS translation).
-
-</para><para>
-
-This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around
-1995-98 (depending on the manufacturer) that supports the <quote>Enhanced
-Disk Drive Support Specification</quote>. Both Lilo, the Linux loader, and
-Debian's alternative <command>mbr</command> must use the BIOS to read the
-kernel from the disk into RAM. If the BIOS int 0x13 large disk access
-extensions are found to be present, they will be utilized. Otherwise,
-the legacy disk access interface is used as a fall-back, and it cannot
-be used to address any location on the disk higher than the 1023rd
-cylinder. Once Linux is booted, no matter what BIOS your computer
-has, these restrictions no longer apply, since Linux does not use the
-BIOS for disk access.
-
-</para><para>
-
-If you have a large disk, you might have to use cylinder translation
-techniques, which you can set from your BIOS setup program, such as
-LBA (Logical Block Addressing) or CHS translation mode (<quote>Large</quote>).
-More information about issues with large disks can be found in the
-<ulink url="&url-large-disk-howto;">Large Disk HOWTO</ulink>. If you
-are using a cylinder translation scheme, and the BIOS does not support
-the large disk access extensions, then your boot partition has to fit
-within the <emphasis>translated</emphasis> representation of the
-1024th cylinder.
-
-</para><para>
-
-The recommended way of accomplishing this is to create a small (5-10MB
-should suffice) partition at the beginning of the disk to be used as
-the boot partition, and then create whatever other partitions you wish
-to have, in the remaining area. This boot partition
-<emphasis>must</emphasis> be mounted on <filename>/boot</filename>,
-since that is the directory where the Linux kernel(s) will be stored.
-This configuration will work on any system, regardless of whether LBA
-or large disk CHS translation is used, and regardless of whether your
-BIOS supports the large disk access extensions.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>