Re: boot floppy for dualboot with 2k

["Shawn Wilton" <shawn@black9.net>]

I can tell you from personal experience that unfortunately, it does matter.

BTW, a great program for grabbing the boot partition off there is something
called bootpart here:  http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

Also, don't cross post to misc and tech.. It's bad etiquette

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tech@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-tech@openbsd.org]On Behalf Of
Dan Finn
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 7:15 PM
To: David Gwynne
Cc: misc@openbsd.org; tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: boot floppy for dualboot with 2k


I tried this and got a generic message, error #2 i think.  I tried both
booting off the floppy and off the cdrom.  When I boot off of either it
recognizes fd0, fd1 and hd0*.  I booted off the cdrom or floppy and am
able to mount /dev/wd0a to /mnt and browse it fine.  disklabel on wd0
shows me that wd0a is my 4.4BSD partition.  i don't get it.  It IS wd0a
but I think because I installed it after I installed win2k that it's after
the first 15 gigs of my hard drive (because I gave 2k the first 15gig
using partition magic), would this matter?

Thanks
Dan

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, David Gwynne wrote:

> you can use the install floppy and type
>
> boot hd0a:/bsd
>
> at the boot loader prompt.
>
> replace hd0a with the location of your root partition.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Finn" <dfinn@faderautomatic.com>
> To: <misc@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:59 AM
> Subject: boot floppy for dualboot with 2k
>
>
> > I installed i386 3.0 last night on my home PC.  The install went fine
> > except I have no way to boot into it.  I would like to just have a boot
> > floppy that would allow me to boot into my OpenBSD installation.  Is
there
> > a way to do this.  I know it's simple under linux but I couldn't find a
> > way to do this under OpenBSD.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan