Bill Leach wrote:
>
> Yes I am aware of this but also have experienced in the past that doing
> this (fdisk/mbr) has made it possible to partition a disk that would not
> otherwise be accepted by fdisk. Because of what you say, I feel as though
> it borders on "FM" but possibly it has something to do with the BIOS of
> the particular machines where this has workded?
Ah, I'm willing to bet this is because the boot block contains a
"magic number" and that fdisk will reject any disk which does not
have this magic number (perhaps it had been corrupted). Note this
excerpt from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt:
The MS-DOS boot sector has the following structure:
+------------------------+
0x000 |Jump to the program code|
|------------------------|
0x003 | |
| Disk parameters |
| |
|------------------------|
0x02C/0x03E | |
| Program code |
| |
| |
|------------------------|
0x1FE | Magic number (0xAA55) |
+------------------------+
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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