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Re: sucessful installation but the partition table is empty

From: José M. Fandiño (openbsdfadesa.es)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 06:47:53 CST

Hello Nick,

Nick Holland wrote:
> > # disklabel wd0
> ...
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> > a: 1024128 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # (Cyl. 0 - 1015)
> Here is your problem ^^^

yes, it was the problem. thank you!!

> What happened is somehow you specified an offset of 0 for the start of
> the first partition. Block 0 just so happens to be where the

I just hit "enter" in the offset suggested by fdisk. I can't explain
why fdisk has this behaviour, anyway now it works. :)

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