RE: Minlabel

["Champigny, Michael" <Michael Champigny compaq com>]

>NOT required in alphalinux. And beware some people have pointed out that
>going to the last cylinder might lead to data corruption by turnover (I
>do not recall whether this affects  "fdisk -b" and minlabel as well).
>Stars in the cylinder  column indicate that partitions do not end at
>cylinder boundaries (simply recalculate right sizes from the given
>information about the sector mapping).

That's very interesting. I've gone out of my way to eliminate the stars
in the offset column on a 1.28GB drive. I've certaintly included the
last cylinder in my partitioning scheme. Could it be I'm spilling over
onto the beginning of the disk? Hmmm...maybe I could could scale back
the last partition an little and try again. I have no problem with
minlabel/copyboot, and I successfully get to aboot. The problem is,
I can't get aboot to load a kernel. :-(

I also take it that it doesn't matter what type the initial partition is?
I've tried both "boot" and "ext2" for the boot partition and it made
no difference.

/Michael