On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:47:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> [...]
> Undefined?
>
> Sorry. But if you go look at the code, that is exactly how it works.
>
> Some might not like it. But that is how it works, at this time.
>
> I don't know what the word "undefined" means in that context.
> [...
Thank you for your time everyone. Especially Gregor Best who pointed me
in the right direction. I managed to get hold on the old 5.0 RELEASE in
fdisk partition 2. However, afterwards I managed to do unspeakable
things.. I learned a lot though. It's a first time for everything! :-D
On Tue, Apr 24,
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 23:35 +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:52 +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> > > You do not flag which "to use". Multiple A6 entries brings problems since
> > > you get multiple diskl
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> You do not flag which "to use". Multiple A6 entries brings problems
> since you get multiple disklabels.
Perhaps it's worthwhile for fdisk to sanity check for errors like this
before writing out an MBR?
Index: cmd.c
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> > 1. When I used "flag 1" in fdisk during install, did the installer place
> > the new files in fdisk partition 1?
> > [...]
>
> IIRC, behaviour with more than one A6 partition is undefined, but
> I'd say so, since it was the first A6 the kernel encountered on
> that disk.
Undefined?
Sorry. B
On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:52 +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> > You do not flag which "to use". Multiple A6 entries brings problems since
> > you get multiple disklabels.
>
> Trust me: I'll remember that in the future.
>
> > I am p
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:52:26PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> [...]
> 1. When I used "flag 1" in fdisk during install, did the installer place
> the new files in fdisk partition 1?
> [...]
IIRC, behaviour with more than one A6 partition is undefined, but
I'd say so, since it was the first A6
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Alexander Hall wrote:
> You do not flag which "to use". Multiple A6 entries brings problems since you
> get multiple disklabels.
Trust me: I'll remember that in the future.
> I am pretty sure this is documented and in the faq and archives.
Maybe so, at
Erling Westenvik 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
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
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