On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 07:34:10PM -0400, Robert V. Baron wrote:
> Another opinion ...
> Since you can access this from the floppy, the start offset is really 246.  What I
> would do is use fdisk -u to make 
>  	beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
> say the right thing and not make the geommetry anymore confusing.  1023/255/63 is
> what bios's are like to use.  So 246/63 = 3 R 57.  Tell fdisk -u that you want
> to edit the partition and when it asks about 'Explicitly specify beg/end address' say yes
> use	cylinder 0; head 3; and sector 58 (not 57)
> [heads are 0 origin'ed; while sectors are 1 origin'ed.]

I though partitions had to start on cylinder boundaries, but this may be a
limitation of some bioses only.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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