Re: dual boot

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Mark Luquette wrote:

> 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

What worked for me was along the lines of:
boot to shell off the CD, then:
# mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
# mkdir /win; mount /dev/wd0i /win # wd0i being my win2k partition
# cd /win
# dd if=/dev/wd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1

That is, create the openbsd.pbr off the OpenBSD root (/) partition.
Then do the boot.ini fiddling.
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| Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2001.11.01/00:52:59 PST |
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