More on "Unreadable" Partition Tables

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

Here is the fdisk printout for the "offending" partition table.
The MBR boots to sda8 (openSUSE).

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe4c0e4c0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        6374    51199123+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            6375        6505     1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            6506       24379   143572905    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4           19259       21808    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/sda5            6506        6897     3148708+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            6898        9508    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            9509       11941    19543041   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           11942       15588    29294496   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           15589       18020    19535008+  83  Linux
/dev/sda10          18021       19258     9944203+  83  Linux
/dev/sda11          21809       24379    20651526   83  Linux

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