"John F. Woods" <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com> writes:
> First, the partition editor appears to have some off-by-one problems
> (I'll check the code after I have dinner to see if I can find code
> that matches the behavior I saw); basically, I had trouble getting it
> to stop complaining that partitions b and e overlapped:
> 
> 	      size     offset  (Megabytes)
> 	a	96	0
> 	b	96	96
> 	e	1911	192
> 
> the partition editor said the b partition ended at 191, but somehow it
> still overlapped with an e partition starting at 192...

Yah.  I reported problems with the way partition creation rounding
with MB units back in PR #5751.  Recently, helping a friend install
1.4_BETA i ran into the same problem, or at least a problem that acted
similarly.

sounds like you've hit the same thing.


cgd
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