Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: >Please ignore and forgive my obviously unforgivable ignorance: > >I wanted to test a snapshot of OpenBSD 5.1 on my ThinkPad T500 which >runs 5.0 Release. I decided to overwrite the Windows 7 installation >which I never use anyway. fdisk(8) before installation was more or less >like this: > > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] >---------------------------------------------------------------- > 0: 07 1 11 5 - 109 59 12 [ 2048: 204800 ] NTFS > 1: 07 109 59 13 - 41336 1 2 [ 206848: 77918208 ] NTFS >*2: A6 41336 1 3 - 82669 114 10 [ 78125056: 78120960 ] OpenBSD > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > >During install, when prompted for which partition to use, I selected >the >run fdisk-option and used the +edit 1; to set partition 1 to type A6, >and +flag 1;-command to make it the active and bootable partition like >this: > > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] >---------------------------------------------------------------- > 0: 07 1 11 5 - 109 59 12 [ 2048: 204800 ] NTFS >*1: A6 109 59 13 - 41336 1 2 [ 206848: 77918208 ] OpenBSD > 2: A6 41336 1 3 - 82669 114 10 [ 78125056: 78120960 ] OpenBSD > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > >I'm almost certain I have done it like this earlier? I mean: just >marking the partition to use with +flag n;, upon which the installer >used >that partition for creating layout with disklabel(8), leaving other >partitions untouched?
You do not flag which "to use". Multiple A6 entries brings problems since you get multiple disklabels. I am pretty sure this is documented and in the faq and archives. You could try setting the partition not to be used to some other dummy type. Backup first. Ymmv. /Alexander > >The rest of the installation went well as always with disklabel using >the default layout. However, when I wanted to boot into my 5.0 and >hence >used the +flag 2;-command in fdisk(8), the system still booted into the >new 5.1. Now it doesn't matter if I run +flag 1; or +flag 2; -- the >system boots into 5.1 anyway. > > >Regards, >Erling
