> I'm hard pressed to think of a case where you would want your kernel >1024
> cylinders, yet would have the "old bootblocks" located <1024 cyls.

How about:

	(1) you want to put your swap partition before your root
		partition, for whatever reason, or

	(2) you want exactly two partitions on your disk: root
		and swap.  If your disk is big enough, then that
		means that your root partition may not be able to fit
		in the first 1024 cyls, and since you can't control
		where the kernel will be placed...



chris