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Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> writes:

> So, the actual problem here is something about the MBR partition
> table. Off-topic now for this list but I wonder if there is a safe
> and reliable way to modify such a partition table after sync to
> allow this to work=E2=80=A6

Like I said before, as long as the start and length of each partition is
an even multiple of 8, just divide them by 8 and recreate the partition
table using those values.