On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, J Sisson wrote:

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM,  <trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
You can actually have MANY more than 4 OS on one drive, but it does get rather
complicated and not worth the effort which certainly wouldn't help here.

The point was that OpenBSD requires a primary partition.


Does it? This is my setup:
~ $ fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0       geometry: 32301/240/63 [488397168 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 07      0  32  33 -    203  74  26 [        2048:     3072000 ] NTFS
 1: 07    203  74  27 -   7137 239  63 [     3074048:   104852512 ] NTFS
 2: 07  30946 178  19 -  32301  57  41 [   467914752:    20480000 ] NTFS
*3: 05 7138 0 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 107926560: 359976960 ] Extended DOS
Offset: 107926560       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: A6 7138 1 1 - 14072 239 63 [ 107926623: 104857137 ] OpenBSD 1: 05 14073 0 1 - 16153 239 63 [ 212783760: 31464720 ] Extended DOS
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
Offset: 212783760       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 83 14073 1 1 - 16153 239 63 [ 212783823: 31464657 ] Linux files* 1: 05 16154 0 1 - 16430 239 63 [ 244248480: 4188240 ] Extended DOS
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
Offset: 244248480       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 82 16154 1 1 - 16430 239 63 [ 244248543: 4188177 ] Linux swap 1: 05 16431 0 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 248436720: 219466800 ] Extended DOS
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
Offset: 248436720       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 83 16431 1 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 248436783: 219466737 ] Linux files*
 1: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused

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