Originally Posted By: mlord
In practice, even an offset of 64 is good enough (any even multiple of 4KBytes)


Would changing the number of heads to 128 and the number of sectors per track to 32 do the same trick? Cylinders would then be multiples of 4KB.

Given that OS installers usually pick cylinder boundaries, I could then have the OS installer do the partitioning.

Thanks,
Pim