Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
ately 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 Stut

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
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

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
d feel sorry for you 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

First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-28 Thread Bertram Scharpf
rmation (The mountpoint information 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

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
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

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
. Please do you read the reports I post in detail. Bertram > 2007/10/29, Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 > &

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
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 > > ... >

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
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) - >