RE: Dual Booting XP and Obsd

[beldridg@pobox.com]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Michael van der Westhuizen wrote:

> 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.

i've done the same. it does help to use fat32 so you can mount it in
openbsd.

> Put your BSD at the beginning of the drive...

i didn't do this.

i've got win2k in the first primary partition and then openbsd in the
second primary.

i've used GRUB for a bootloader at it works great, although i have to use
the chainloader to boot openbsd and supposedly you shouldn't need to.



- brett