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Alex:

I'm almost there !
As per you prior suggestion, I have learned how to:
1. edit boot.ini with the line c:\openbsd.pbr="OpenBSD"  [[it shows up as a
boot option]]
2. dd a file to openbsd.pbr and copy it to the c:\

the only remaining tidbit is which file needs to be dd to openbsd.org

In your first communication, you suggested:
dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1

I have made a few assumptions:
1. since openbsd root is installed on wd1a, I boot with the CDROM and mount
/dev/wd1a /mnt
2. once wd1a is mounted I tried dd if=/mnt/dev/rsd0c of=openbsd.pbr bs=512
count=1 and get
    "device not configured"
If I do dd if=/dev/rwd1c of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 it creates an
openbsd.pbr, but that file did not result in booting openbsd on the hard
drive

For clarification, Win2k is on wd0i and openbsd is on wd1(a / ,b swap,c ,d
/tmp,e /var,g /usr,h /home)
I actually did
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0i   /mnt/dc
dd if=/dev/rwd1c of=/mnt/dc/openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
It copied the openbsd.pbr to c:\
It was read on boot but did not boot openbsd fro the hard drive

How do I ferret out the file that needs to be called (copy what to openbsd.pbr
?)

Does it suffice to have openbsd.pbr on c:\ alone or must it also be on the
unix drive ?