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RE: Dual Booting XP and Obsd
I'm doing it at home on one box, on two of my friends computers, and on a
IBM ThinkPad laptop too.
Long and the short of it is "forget trying to modify ntldr" - ntldr does
*not* handle OpenBSD easily - I've never got them playing together nicely.
More word of advice:
Install your MS OS onto FAT32... really. That way you can recover your files
when it crashes, and you can use that space from OpenBSD.
Put your BSD at the beginning of the drive...
After installing everything, boot from a DOS/Win95-98 boot floppy and use
OS-BS - it works a charm. There's no need to adjust the active partition ID.
Dual booting also works fine with BootMagic.
Early versions of XP summarily trash a type A6 partition... I haven't played
with the final release yet, but be careful. Your best bet is to get your
partitioning right and you FAT partition formatted before installing
anything.
Read all the docs you can get your hands on - there's a really good FAQ for
dual-booting Linux and OpenBSD that gives you good pointers for some of the
gotcha's you'll come across.
Have a calculator and a piece of paper handy... trust me.
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: enigmabomb [mailto:whoredware@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:29 PM
To: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Dual Booting XP and Obsd
Hey guys,
Anyone dual booting xp or 2k and obsd? I just got a
lappy, and I am afraid of trashing it, but I need to
keep windows for my cs class. If anyone has any
pertinent things that could save me time, trouble, or
turmoil, I welcome them with open arms. Also, I was
thinking of some kind of webpage where we could all
document working hardware setups with obsd and
reviews. I don't know. If it were made would there be
any interest in using it?
-enigmabomb-
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