Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>:

> I am trying to replace a dying SCSI disk, but can't get the new one to boot
> because I can't create an MBR partition which starts at 0. Try as I might,
> fdisk insists on starting at 63. How can I teach it otherwise?

This is a shot in the dark, but I vaguely recall having a similar
struggle some years ago, and I finally had to "dd if=/dev/zero" to the
first few blocks of the disk to get rid of the persistent wrong MBR
before I could write what I wanted to.

Anne.
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