g'day,

trying to get a multiple boot scenario working on my laptop with
Windows Vista, Ubuntu, and OpenBSD im having trouble with both editing
grub to get it to allow me to boot into openbsd.

I keep getting error cannot get C/H/S values from grub at boot time.

fdisk from ubuntu shows
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x50000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          22      176683+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2              23        1981    15728640    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            1981       21632   157850384+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4           21633       60801   314624992+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           21633       40652   152778118+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           40653       41780     9060628+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7   *       41781       60801   152786151   a6  OpenBSD

I just tried booting off the install cd for openbsd with

boot > hd7a:/bsd

which seems to fail and suggest trying the cd version, i had a poke
about with the boot help menu and it says (paraphrasing) that the boot
letters should be hd[0123]

have i made an error in installing where by openbsd needs to be on one
of the first 4 partitions of the drive?
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