RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies

["Greg Lindahl" <glindahl hpti com>]

> DOS partition tables are really brain-damaged (the 32-bit fields in
> them are unaligned, extended partitions are a mess, etc), so, except
> for the fact that the fdisk support for BSD disklabels as they're done
> on Alpha is somewhat broken at the moment, you might consider it a
> blessing rather than a curse :)

All this may be true, but I would prefer it if all Linux implementations
could use the same partition table... just like all RedHat distributions now
use the same /boot/vmlinuz convention.

-- g