Are the new partitions mandatory for arch arm?

[homunculus]

Hi all,

I just had a chance to spend some time with the Raspberry Pi again last weekend. It seems the latest arch image now sets up different partitions from what I was used to. I believe I've read in another post that this was done upon request by the foundation and that's just the way it is now. That's fine - I just have a quick question concerning it.

I'm setting up arch to boot to an attached USB drive. Will creating a single primary ext4 partition still work or must I now setup the drive to conform to the new partitions that the image wants to create (namely the extended partition with the logical drive in it).

Sorry for the noobish question. My gut says it shouldn't matter but I just wanted to make sure arch is indifferent in this regard.

Thanks!

[moonman]

The partition layout doesn't matter as long as you have kernel on the sd card and point your kernel to the right rootfs partition in config.txt

[homunculus]

Thanks for the quick reply. That's great - I partitioned it the way I wanted and it booted just fine.