hmm, on Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:49:43PM +0000, Brian Candler said that > I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the > end of the disk.
i am booting openbsd fine using gag from around the 60th gigabyte... amaaq> fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 9729/255/63 [156296385 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0: 07 0 1 1 - 1977 254 63 [ 63: 31776507 ] HPFS/QNX/AUX 1: 0C 1978 0 1 - 8198 254 63 [ 31776570: 99940365 ] Win95 FAT32L *2: A6 8199 0 1 - 9728 254 63 [ 131716935: 24579450 ] OpenBSD 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused disklabel: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 8.1G 62.8G 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 130671*-147432 b: 0.6G 70.9G swap # Cyl 147433 -148753 c: 74.5G 0.0G unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -155060 -f -- the best way out of a difficulty is through it.