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I'm attempting to use fdisk or GParted here, but these programs will not allow me to create a 1MB ext2 partition at the beginning of the disk (not able to apply partition "constraints" error). If I use fdisk, it will default to an 8MB partition.
In Gparted there is an option for cylinder rounding--I unchecked it. If you leave the option checked it will not allow you to enter 1MB for a size. I will try using fdisk again, but specifying the number of cylinders manually rather than the size of the partition.
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