>> okay...i'll try that later tonight.  but that'll just write the same
>> stuff back to the disk, no?
>
>No, if you enter 'no' (which is the default :) to 'Explicitly specify beg/end
>address?' then fdisk will recompute these numbers from start, size and the
>BIOS geometry he found. So hopefully it will correct the bogus
>start/end CHS values.

well...whadya know?  it works!  yay!  thanks very much.

ps - new fdisk table at ftp://ftp.daemon.org/pub/fdisk

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