On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Adam Patterson wrote: > In the fdisk(8) manpage you will see the following table. > > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 0: 04 0 1 1 - 170 0 63 [ 63: 2570462 ] DOS FAT-16 > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > *3: A6 170 1 1 - 5167 239 63 [ 2570463: 75569697 ] OpenBSD > > For a first timer, reading this manpage during installation I think that > this partition scheme would confuse them. > > The "start" of #3 should actually be 2570462+63. The size of #0 plus the > start point. > > You can see the proper behavior in the following table from FAQ (14.2). > > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *0: A6 3 0 1 - 552 254 63 [ 48195: 8835750 ] OpenBSD > 1: 12 0 1 1 - 2 254 63 [ 63: 48132 ] Compaq Diag. > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > > If I'm blatantly missing something please let me know, but I believe this > is a bug. > Thanks. > .adam.
thanks, we've just fixed this. jmc
