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I did not wish to use the entire SSD for OpenBSD 5.5. (The SSD is new and pre-formatted with MSDOS using Gparted)
During installation and at the fdisk stage, I chose Partition #: 0 to install OpenBSD (I changed the Partition ID to a6). I plan to install other Unix-like OS in Partition #: 1 or 2.
When prompted for partition offset (the default is 0), what number should I enter: 0, 63, 64, 2048 or 4096?
Below are details about the disk geometry of my SSD when I entered 0 for Partition offset:
Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [whole] e
You will now create a single MBR partition to contain your OpenBSD data. This partition must have an id of ‘A6’; must *NOT* overlap other partitions; and must be marked as the only active partition. Inside the fdisk command, the ‘manual’ command describes all the fdisk commands in detail.
Disk: sd0 geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors)
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [start : size]
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0 : 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0 : 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0 : 0 ] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0 : 0 ] unused
Enter ‘help’ for information
fdisk: 1> e 0
Partition id ('0' to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help) a6
Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n] no
Partition offset: [0] 0
Partition size: [0] 70g
fdisk:*1> f 0
Partition 0 marked active
fdisk:*1> q
Writing MBR at offset 0
The auto-allocated layout for sd0 is:
The installation proceeded smoothly without a hitch.
Upon rebooting my machine, the last few lines were the error messages:
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
panic: root filesystem has size 0
Stopped at Debugger+0x5 : leave
Run at least 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! IF RUNNING SMP, USE 'mach ddbcpu <#>' AND 'trace' ON OTHER PROCESSORS TOO.
DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION!
ddb{0}>
user66229
Posted 2014-08-06T20:31:45.240
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Random question, were you able to run those two commands suggested? – Canadian Luke – 2014-08-06T20:36:51.807
@CanadianLuke: Why are you answering my question with a question? – user66229 – 2014-08-07T17:16:28.973
It's a comment, not an answer. Offering ways to improve the question whenever possible is what comments can be used for. If I knew the answer off the top of my head, I'd post it, but this is simply a comment, that's it. – Canadian Luke – 2014-08-07T17:33:38.750