[mdlug] Too many partitions?

[Drew]

     On getting the latest Ubuntu I had created yet another logical 
partition, at the end of the chain, of
course, slipping it just before the last partition which is the 
common /tmp, in the hope of creating an
on-disk LiveCD like I had previously done with RIPLinux and PC-OS. 
It's not working out so well for
this LiveCD, but that's another topic.

     Before creating the partition I had

/dev/sda1        Legacy FAT  (It doesn't take up much space so might 
as well keep it around)
/dev/sda2        320BOOT      Some common stuff plus the Grub stuff for the MBR
/dev/sda3        320DATA       Common data partition
/dev/sda4        Extended
     /dev/sda5        320SUSE
     /dev/sda6        RIPLinux boot CD
     /dev/sda7        PC-OS boot CD  ****
     /dev/sda8        320FEDORA
     /dev/sda9        320SCIENTIFIC (Scientific Linux, which I've 
found nothing scientific about)
     /dev/sda10      320TMP    Common /tmp

     I deleted the last one, and inserted two for the following:

....

     /dev/sda9        320SCIENTIFIC
     /dev/sda10      Partition for UBUNTU LiveCD
     /dev/sda11      Common /tmp, moved back one notch.

     Since I mount all my filesystems by label nowadays I figured I 
could do this.

     However, when I booted up PC-OS the GUI failed to start. I got 
as far as a command prompt then it
stopped. I then put the filesystems back the way they were before and 
tried again. I finally got the GUI
running. It seems that PC-OS doesn't want to run properly on a system 
with more than 9 (or 10 if you
count the extended) partitions.

     I had hoped to keep PC-OS as it has all the codecs right on the 
media - no need to chase after them.
I had also hoped to put a few more distributions on the hard drive.

     Any way to fix this?

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   - Drew.