> Thanks a lot for your patience when I became fretful.

I also become very usually fretful when something that SHOULD be
working is as stubborn as to refuse to do it. I know it. Oh, yes...
and how...

glad to read that it worked for you!

Pau

2007/10/29, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de>:
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> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:54:23 -0500 schrieb Andrew Daugherity:
> > On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> > >   grub> root (hd1,^I
> > >      ...
> > >      Partition num: 5,  No BSD sub-partition found, partition type 0xa6
> > >      ...
> > >
> > > 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).
>
> Those @#$!& extended partitions! It's really time for me to
> get rid of that kind of programming style.
>
> I tried it out on another machine where I had a free primary
> partition. Hoolay--it boots! Moving partitions around on the
> machine described above will take some time but I will try
> it in any case and I will report.
>
> Thanks a lot for your patience when I became fretful.
>
> Bertram
>
>
> --
> Bertram Scharpf
> Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
> http://www.bertram-scharpf.de