On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:35:36PM +0100, Bryan wrote: > I recently attempted to dualboot my laptop with Windows XP. I was > following the FAQ and came to the point where I issued this command: > > "dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1" > > And the system tells me that: > > > "/dev/rsd0a not configured" > > I did a google search to see if I did anything wrong and I found this site: > > > http://darkuncle.net/OpenBSD/OpenBSD_dualboot.txt > > I found the following passage: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > When you're done installing, pop in a USB key or floppy, mount it > (for a USB key, I do "mount_msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt"; for a floppy, it's > "mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt") and do the following to grab your OpenBSD > primary boot record: > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/mnt/openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 > > Now reboot the machine into Windows, and copy the openbsd.pbr file you just > created to C:\openbsd.pbr in Windows. If you don't have a floppy or USB key > available to tranfer your openbsd.pbr with, you can copy it to another > machine on your network, reboot into Windows, and copy it back. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The "dd" command above does allow me to save openbsd.pbr, and with > this, I can dualboot. I just wanted to give a heads-up that if the > FAQ doesn't allow you to dualboot, then the above might work. I > thought that maybe it was a typo, since "rsd0a" and "rwd0a" differ by > one letter, and those differing letters lie close on the keyboard.
it is not a typo, just another possibility. maybe you want to have a look at the wd(4) and sd(4) manual pages. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
