Re: fdisk is driving me insane

[Moritz Jodeit <moritz@jodeit.org>]

> partitions for Windows so I can use the restore software. The geometry
> detected for my disk by OpenBSD is 1023/255/63 [16434495 sectors]. I was
> able to get FreeBSD to dual boot just fine but the geometry was set at
> 2443(i think)/255/63. Unfortunaly I can't set geometry like that in
> OpenBSD. Partitioning with units like cylinders, heads, and sectors
> confuses the hell out of me.  I want to use OSBS to boot these OSes. How
> can I make this work?

I have a very similiar problem. I just want to boot OpenBSD on my
Toshiba Portege 3440ct laptop. FreeBSD works too, but OpenBSD doesn't.
To set geometry in OpenBSD try escaping to a shell during install
and try something like this:

fdisk -e -c 2443 -h 255 -s 63 wd0

Don't know if that helps,
Moritz