Re: Dualboot linux/openbsd Bad magic

[Dries Schellekens <gwyllion@ace.ulyssis.org>]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote:

> Hello, I think this might have been discussed before -- however I could not find any
> definitive explanation/solution by searching the web. I got a spare machine that needs
> to be spare for two machines, in case of a hardware breakdown. I got linux on the
> first 9gb of the disk, and openbsd on the last 9gb. I got lilo in the mbr, it boots linux
> fine but when try boot openbsd, I get the error "Bad magic". The disk is scsi.
>
> I heard something about openbsd must be located within the first 1023 sectors on the disk
> to be able to boot. Is this correct, or is there a workaround -- or some way to be able to
> boot linux and openbsd, without having to install third-party commercial boot managers?

Yes. OpenBSD must be within the first 8 Gb. This is explained in
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive
http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/ocep/disks.html#bigdisk
http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/ocep/disks.html#partition

Greetings,

Dries
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Dries Schellekens
email: gwyllion@ulyssis.org