--- Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 07:59:32PM -0700, Caffeinate The World wrote:
> > I've always used 0 as the offset of my first partition. However,
> I've
> > also see people use the above rule of setting the first offset to
> the
> > sectors/track. Anyone know why?
> 
> I've successfully used 0 too, but I've seen it fail too: some BIOSes
> just 

On the Alpha I've used 0 offset, but on i386 it's always 63 or was it
65. Anyway, can anyone confirm that it's safe on the Alpha to use
offset 0?

Thomas

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