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Re: OpenBSD and NT



Greg Thomas wrote and mailed:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abel O. Nelson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:44:34PM -0700, Paul Fontenot wrote:
> > > I have two hard drives in my system. The first has NT on it and I would
> > > like to use the NT bootloader.
> > > 
> > > I have the following slices on my second hard drive:

[ Disklabel info ]

> > > after the installation I did the following:
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/rsd1c of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
> > shouldn't ^^^^^ be /dev/rsd1a?? I think it'll work better that way.
> 
> c is the whole drive so I wouldn't think it matters?

since c is the _whole_ drive and not just the whole OBSD fdisk
partition it definately matters. So hen you use c you get the MBR.

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> Greg Thomas
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