On 12/31/15 00:49, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Brian McCafferty wrote: >> Are you referring to the file you need to create for dual booting with the >> windows ntldr? Check the FAQ: >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/obsd-faq.txt > > Just out of curiousity, I dd'ed that sector and it didn't end in AA55. Did I > get something wrong? I'm doing full-disk > encryption so I'm not sure how grabbing > the "real" boot sector works in that circumstance.
You are confusing the MASTER Boot Record (first 512 bytes of the physical disk) with the PARTITION Boot Record (first 512 bytes of the OpenBSD partition). The AA55 signature is on the MBR. See the "How OpenBSD Boots" section of FAQ 14. Nick.
