CHS/fdisk

[Josh Grosse]

Tonino Pablo posted the following message to me via e-mail; my reply bounced
from Lycos; the mail server refused e-mail to the address.  Normally I
wouldn't post an e-mail, but I have no way of replying directly, and Tonino
had already posted an initial question on the subject to this list; nothing
in the e-mail is of any personal nature.

----- Forwarded message from Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net> -----

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:28:16 -0400
From: Josh Grosse <josh at jggimi.homeip.net>
To: x x <tonino-pablo at lycos.com>
Subject: Re: CHS/fdisk

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:28:02AM -0400, x x wrote:
> I tried doing as you said about using like flag 1, flag 2, to set the 
> active partition and to skip over editing the CHS, but when I reboot there 
> is nothing there, it doesn't work. So how can I install Open as the 
> second or third OS without editing the CHS?
 
Boot the ramdisk kernel (from cd43.iso, or similar media), and capture the
output of "# fdisk wd0" or "# fdisk sd0" (for IDE/ATA or SCSI, respectively).

Post the output to openbsd-newbies.

----- End forwarded message -----