SRM Aboot partitioning Question(s)

[Steve Udell <hettar@home.com>]

Hello,

I am thinking of useing SRM Aboot for booting my Linux on an Alpha.
I have read differt almost conflicting ideas on how to go about this.

One says don't use cfdisk, and to use fdisk(console) and hit b for BSD
style partitioning. I am not eactly sure how this would work, sat there
messing with it to no avail. 
Also to set it at offset 0 to 3megs?! arrgh..

Another says leave a dos 3 meg partiton at the begining of the drive arrgh

Yet another says start the first partition at 2048 sector..leaveing 1meg
room for installing aboot.
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if in fdisk I change to u(for show sectors) then n(for new partiton) then
tell it to start at 2048sector, will this leave 0-2048 open for booting purposes? 

I get some message saying:

	device boot	start	end	blocks	id	system
	/dev/sda1	2048  264192   131072+	83	Linux native  *128Megs
Partition 1 does not end? on cylinder boundry:
phys=(63,40,11) should be (63,66,62)
	/dev/sda2      264193 52348    129685+	82	Linux Swap     *127Megs 
	/dev/sda3      523404 4191385  1833991  83	Linux native	*rest of drive(usr)

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anyone have any hints/help/do this/dont do that type of help for me?
	 
Steve Udell
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