Re: Installer overwrites partition table

but you would have no use for that. Please leave the installer as it is so that everbody will be warned early enough. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

On Wednesday, 24. Aug 2016, 08:24:34 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > On 08/24/16 07:15, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > > heck of partitioning in my life. > > claim. And re-installing windows twenty times counts as one O

Installer overwrites partition table

stopped it. But yet it was too late. The partition table was overwritten. The damage is not hard for me because I tersely do backups. But this behaviour is impudent. This blowfish is not a safe operating system, it rather is a poorly prepared fugu. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

Hi again, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 02:38:08 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt after I mounted them

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

do read documentation and I read it in detail. I still will be glad if you point me to some new information. Telling me to read again and again the same doesn't make the disklabel command behave different. Please do you read the reports I post in detail. Bertram 2007/10/29, Bertram Scharpf

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

Hi, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:54:23 -0500 schrieb Andrew Daugherity: On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub root (hd1,^I ... Partition num: 5, No BSD sub-partition found, partition type 0xa6 ... Here is a `sfdisk' (Linux) output: /dev

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

Hi, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 20:01:22 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:54:23 -0500 schrieb Andrew Daugherity: I think this is your problem -- the OpenBSD partition needs to be a primary partition (hda1-hda4 in Linux terminology, or (hd0,1) - (hd0,3) in GRUB

First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

appears in /tmp/fdisk.wd1), - where Grub expects to find it, - what further goes wrong here? Thanks in advance, Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de