On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:33:42PM -0500, Adam Patterson wrote:
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> In the fdisk(8) manpage you will see the following table.
> 
> #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0: 04    0   1  1 -  170   0 63 [          63:     2570462 ] DOS FAT-16
> 1: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
> 2: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused
> *3: A6  170   1  1 - 5167 239 63 [     2570463:    75569697 ] OpenBSD
> 
> For a first timer, reading this manpage during installation I think that 
> this partition scheme would confuse them.
> 
> The "start" of #3 should actually be 2570462+63. The size of #0 plus the 
> start point.
> 
> You can see the proper behavior in the following table from FAQ (14.2).
> 
>         Starting       Ending       LBA Info:
> #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *0: A6    3   0  1 -  552 254 63 [       48195:     8835750 ] OpenBSD     
> 1: 12    0   1  1 -    2 254 63 [          63:       48132 ] Compaq Diag.
> 2: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
> 3: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused   
> 
> 
> If I'm blatantly missing something please let me know, but I believe this 
> is a bug.
> Thanks. 
> .adam.

thanks, we've just fixed this.
jmc