indeed...

you seem not to have read the site I pointed to previously.

Don't say you have read it if you didn't. The information is there.

Do what Andrew says and tag it as A6; i.e. "openbsd" from the linux fdisk

This is *also* written in the web page

2007/10/29, Andrew Daugherity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   grub> root (hd1,^I
> >    Possible partitions are:
> >      Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >      Partition num: 1,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
> >      Partition num: 4,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >      Partition num: 5,  No BSD sub-partition found, partition type 0xa6
> >      Partition num: 6,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
> >
> >   grub> root (hd1,5,a)
> >
> >   Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt
> >
> >   grub> rootnoverify (hd1,5,a)
> >
> >   grub> cat /
> >
> >   Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
> >
> > Here is a `sfdisk' (Linux) output:
> >
> >   /dev/hdb1 : start=        1, size=    32255, Id=83
> >   /dev/hdb2 : start=    32256, size=  2096640, Id=82
> >   /dev/hdb3 : start=  2128896, size=117974304, Id= 5
> >   /dev/hdb4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
> >   /dev/hdb5 : start=  2128897, size=  4194287, Id=83
> >   /dev/hdb6 : start=  6323185, size= 37748591, Id=a6, bootable
> >   /dev/hdb7 : start= 44071777, size= 76031423, Id=8e
> >
>
> I think this is your problem -- the OpenBSD partition needs to be a
> primary partition (hda1-hda4 in Linux terminology, or (hd0,1) -
> (hd0,3) in GRUB language, and you have it as an extended partition
> (hdb6).  This is not supported.  Reallocated your fdisk partitions so
> the OpenBSD partition is a primary partition and reinstall (you may
> have to resize your extended partition, ID=5, to make room).
>
> Andrew

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