On 11/09/17 13:42, SFM wrote: ... > The target: > > Triple boot Mac OS X, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD from the same drive > (there are quite a few reasons for this, do not call me a masochist, > at least not in public).
no need, you already described your behavior. ;) > > The problem: As I, of course, do not intend to use the whole disk for > OpenBSD, I choose “E†at the prompt which asks so. As expected, > fdisk is summoned. I then mark, according to the instructions, my > second partition, where I want my OpenBSD installation to sit, as an > active A06 partition and exit, saving my progress. I would expect the > installer to summon disklabel, which does not happen. It complains > that no OpenBSD active partition is present. I can do that over and > over again and there is no way that I go beyond that point. did you really create an A06 partition? If so (and I don't fdisk should let you do that, but I've never tried) what you describe is what should happen. it's "a6", not "a06". Nick.
