RE: Boot stopping at using partition 3 id 0

[Stephen Marley <stephen_(_at_)_openkast_(_dot_)_com>]

> Idem, no pb on most installs, but only Ranish Partition Manager 
> saved me after i lost many hours on a Dell Poweredge 1300. Sometimes 
> "Using Partition 3 id 0", sometimes "Bad Magic". Thanks Ranish.
> Seems that Dell'Bios was the problem.

The "Bad Magic" error occurs when the kernel is on a partition spanning the
1024 cylinder boundary. However, for the partition 3 error, I think "the
many hours lost" could be prevented if the OpenBSD install process made more
noise about this issue. A warning about some BIOSes, an option to install an
alternative bootloader, or even just a pointer to the faq or the fdisk /mbr
cure could save a lot of people a lot of time. 

-- 
stephen