> /dev/sdb11 1024 1061 1085 200781 82 Linux swap > /dev/sdb12 1024 1086 1115 240943+ 83 Linux native > > I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting > at cylinder 1061 there is still the wrong bin value of 1024. > i don't think, that this is a problem. the dos-ish partition table can hold only numbers from 0 to 1023 (means 1..1024). thus, if something bigger is needed, 1023 is stored, which is read as 1024 and is ignored anyway. only the starting sector number is relevant. the begin column in your partition dump is unimportant (only the dos boot sector and older lilo versions care about it). the start column is calculated from the beginning sector and is the authoritive number.
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