David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote:

> Theo et al.,
> 
> I understand that it's an installer, but I do have an interest in 
> having an OpenBSD installing along side a GNU Linux installation.
> That said, the basic "OpenBSD takes over the machine" install does
> in fact work just fine.  If that's the only intended use case why
> provide instructions for enabling multiboot through GRUB? I've been
> attempting multiboot through GRUB 2 but the issues I'm encountering
> seem fairly common, and I haven't gotten into the fine details yet.

Personally, I don't think we should provide that information.  But
someone is providing it, I guess, in the FAQ.

> I'd say that I simply don't see why the installer destructively 
> re-arranges the disk's scheme prior to officially choosing to write
> the new partitioning scheme to the disk.  Howver, I must admit that
> the procedure would not work if this were deferred to the next step
> in DISKLABEL.

I haven't checked the FAQ.  You probably went off the recipe.  And
you reap what you sow.

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