On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf  wrote:

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>   grub> root (hd1,^I

>    Possible partitions are:

>      Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

>      Partition num: 1,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82

>      Partition num: 4,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

>      Partition num: 5,  No BSD sub-partition found, partition type 0xa6

>      Partition num: 6,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e

>

>   grub> root (hd1,5,a)

>

>   Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt

>

>   grub> rootnoverify (hd1,5,a)

>

>   grub> cat /

>

>   Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

>

> 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).
Andrew