Fw: dual boot

["Drillbit" <drillbit@embryodoc.org>]

Dave:
I'll try it.
>From the FAQ that suggested rsd0c, I translated to rwd1c
Per your suggestion, I'll try wd1a

What are the r devs such as rwd1a vs wd1a ?

Mark L.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Taira" <bodhi@hagakure.org>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: dual boot


> 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 |
> | Morlock for Hire                                                       |
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