On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:36:33 +0100, M. Schatzl wrote: > the first time leaving the boot flag on #0: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The NTFS and Compaq(FAT16) partitions showed up as i and j in the > disklabel-editor. > > I had to calculate the new offsets for my partitions myself because it > always remained on the initial value (which was correct for wd0a).
Can confirm this behaviour. It is plain ugly: You need a pocket calculator, and when you miss it by one, it will tell you. So it *does* know, it only doesn't tell you that it knows the correct value to start with and rather tests your own calculating abilities. What I cannot reproduce, though, is the boot problem. Here it installs and boots properly (what do you mean with 'Installing the BIOS' ??); also in the case with active partition #0. Without any additional biosboot or whatsoever. Maybe you made a mistake at your offset/size calculations ? Personally, I consider it an installer bug. When you run a multi-boot and don't have OpenBSD in the first partition; you probably boot through boot.ini; grub or lilo on *nix or similar. Then the correct active partition is and remains #0. No point to make the installer default any OpenBSD partition to the offset of your 'first' OS. Uwe
