Figure: Boot and swap configured on two primary partitions, and no more available logical partitions shows an example of an unsupported layout with boot and root configured on two primary partitions, and no more available logical partitions.

If this layout exists on a SCSI disk, it cannot be encapsulated because only one spare primary partition is available, and even though swap is configured on a logical partition and there is free space in the extended partition, no more logical partitions can be created. The same problem arises with IDE disks when 12 logical partitions have been created.

A suggested workaround is to evacuate any data from one of the existing logical partitions, and then delete this logical partition. This makes one logical partition available for use by the private region. The root disk can then be encapsulated.