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Date:	Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:48:07 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Preparing new HDD for eCS -- boot manager issue

In <380-220071062731918406@M2W039.mail2web.com>, on 10/26/07
at 08:19 PM, "jrace@attglobal.net" said:

Hi,

>In fact it has always had to be a FAT partition sized 7.4 mb. For some
>reason Partition Magic 8 sets the minimum size at 14 mb. But that is
>where the old IBM Boot Manager lived.

This was never true. Boot manager lives a primary partition that is
exactly one cylinder in size. The size of the partition in MiB depends on
the logical geometry.

Fdisk/lvm attempt to hide this fact. Dfsee make it more or less obvious.

Steven

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