Is it possible to get past the 15 partition limitation

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#1

One of my drives has 16 partitions. In OS11.1 I get this error. I am using kernel 2.6.32-rc5-3 on an 64 bit system.

I also happen to be running Debian Sid and Fedora 12 Beta and these see all partitions with no issue.

#2

milomak wrote:

> One of my drives has 16 partitions. In OS11.1 I get ‘this error’
> (http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7626/suse.png). I am using kernel
> 2.6.32-rc5-3 on an 64 bit system.

Yes… IIRC, the bypass was loading the old module for disks. That was
documented in the Release Notes, when IDE devices started using (by
default) the new libata:

libata for IDE Devices
http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#09

But be careful is using that option in a current and working system, it may
mess up things.

> I also happen to be running Debian Sid and Fedora 12 Beta and these see
> all partitions with no issue.

BTW, I guess that “partitions limit” is gone away in openSUSE 11.2.

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

#3

I added the option at the end of the kernel line.

fdisk -l now lists all the partitions. But YaST still recognises only 15.

#4

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 20:46 +0000, milomak wrote:
> One of my drives has 16 partitions. In OS11.1 I get ‘this error’
> (http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7626/suse.png). I am using kernel
> 2.6.32-rc5-3 on an 64 bit system.
>
> I also happen to be running Debian Sid and Fedora 12 Beta and these see
> all partitions with no issue.
>
>

IMHO, the easiest way it to do LVM instead of partitioning.
Gets rid of a lot of limitations.

#5

i like to run multiple distros so LVM is not an option for the various root and boot partitions