[email protected] ("John D. Baker") writes: >That depends. I routinely start MBR partitions in sector 1. Only in >a couple of cases has that been rejected, although I forget the context.
For most systems sector 1 is the disklabel sector, which is write protected. You can work around that (see disklabel -N|-W) but it usually leads to other compatibility problems. Skipping the first "cylinder" is what most systems live with or even expect.
