Re: Installation use of fdisk, triple boot

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/04

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    On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:51:30 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

    > I should also mention that your plan was wrong because the last time I
    > used OpenBSD's fdisk for a multi-boot system it could not handle drives
    > larger than 8GB and really made a mess of the partition table on a large
    > drive.

    It appears that OpenBSD fdisk has been fixed along with the ability to
    boot from a partition beyond the old 8GB limit.

    [postfix]# fdisk -e wd0
    Enter 'help' for information
    fdisk: 1> print
    Disk: wd0 geometry: 4864/255/63 [78140160 Sectors]
    Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting Ending LBA Info:
     #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
     1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
     2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
    *3: A6 0 1 1 - 4864 254 63 [ 63: 78156162 ] OpenBSD
    fdisk: 1> quit

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