> Did you guys see my mail yesterday ? (albeit responding to the "Problem
> booting OpenBSD-current AMD64" thread)

Yes I did. Sorry for the late response.


> First of all I'd expect OpenBSD to create its fdisk partition on the
> partition with id 3, starting at LBA offset 64. (don't know if this
> changed)
> Is the partition 0 starting at offset 2048 a Linux left-over ?

No I did that on purpose, because when I partition the harddisk with the
OpenBSD installer the system won't boot.


> Anyway, my Gigabyte board used to work fine with a fdisk partition
> starting at either offset 63 or 64, respectively. Not so much after
> installing Linux the other day, which put the starting offset at 2048.

Unfortunately this board won't start with the offset of either 63 or 64.


> This happens using the on-board Intel AHCI controller. Fortunately my
> board also has a non-Intel controller which does work, so being able to
> use that I didn't put more time into investigating this.

Unfortunately this board doesn't have a non-Intel controller.

Kind regards,


Martijn Rijkeboer

Reply via email to