Re: Strange Fdisk Output-help!

[Nick Holland <nick_(_at_)_holland-consulting_(_dot_)_net>]

Siju George wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One of my collegues installed OpenBSD in his machine. He had given the
> partition ID as A6 and edited the Partition 0 in sectors mode. He
> chose the default offset and then gave the size as 8000m and
> everything was OK. Then he installed some software from ports and
> packages and afterwards when he checked the output of fdisk wd0 he got
> this strange display!
> 
> Please someone comment on this! I have no Idea about this. will it be
> possible to create other partitions on this disk with this partition
> 0. Eventhough the Partition ID of Partition 0 is not A6 OpenBSD
> happily boots up normally and functions normally.
> 
> Disk: wd0	geometry: 5174/240/63 [78230880 Sectors]
> Offset: 0	Signature: 0xAA55
>          Starting       Ending       LBA Info:
>  #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  0: E8 16316  17  8 - -39979 -151  0 [   246698998:  -851190991 ] <Unknown ID>
>  1: 01    0   0  1 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] DOS FAT-12  
>  2: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
>  3: 3F    0   0  1 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] <Unknown ID>

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#blankfdisk

He picked an inappropriate "default".  He needs to redo this install.

Nick.
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