On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 12:55:31PM +0600, Sergey Yudin wrote:
>>> no it is not a garbage.. It's just zero filled disk. Geometry
>>> detection process uses info from preexisting partition table?
>>>
>>>
>> And the zero fill included the MBR making it garbage.
>>
>
> so we must prepare MBR with 3rd party tools before OpenBSD installation?
No, fdisk -i will put the right values in. This will be done by the
install script if you choose to use the whole disk for OpenBSD. If you
do not want to use the whole disk, you can use any fdisk tool
(including the OpenBSD one) to setup your disk.
-Otto
