As for a new standard I think we should start out by evaluating all current disklabel schemes to see what state of the art is, and how we can improve upon it.
Ahh, that is the whole point I'm trying to get accross. I have been studying mbrs/partition tables and how they work, and what data is contained in them. I really think it is possible to take the data from the mbr/partition table and manipulate it to our advantage, thus bypassing ALL real mode interrupts. The problem would be if an OS (like windows) deciedes to make a INT call....
But for Linux, I really feel it is possible.