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 disklabels.
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, 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.
[...]
Hence
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
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
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
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 the
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 pretty sure
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. But if you
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?
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