Hi,
It is not intended to be a dual boot installation. Therefore, the
PfSense installation must be replaced by open BSD. My question is what I
should do with the (U)efi partition, and how I can possibly link open
BSD to it. Does anyone have some good suggestions for me?
Op 31-07-2023 om 00:06 schreef Saïd AARAB:
Hi,
It depends if you want to keep the existing psfsens install or if you
want dual boot.
If looking to install beside pfsens, I would beleive that installing
OpenBSD along any existing OS should be no different than installing
linux or windows along another OS, as you would need to prepare the
block device (SDD) by making space if possible (and if you dont have
any) for another partition in which you would install OpenBSD. so any
documentation (explaining how to shrink existing partitions, create
another partion, handle dual boot) that is not necessarily specific to
OpenBSD should help.
Im not very familiar with how pfsens work and if it did install a
bootloader, if not you might need to install one like GRUB and
configure it to be able to select between the two OS at startup.
Overall installing dual boot is very tricky and you should be carefull
to not wipe your existing data, a backup is advised
On Jul 30, 2023 19:30, Karel Lucas <cahlu...@planet.nl> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has
PfSense on
it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI
partition
on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as
shown by
openBSD fdisk:
0: efiboot0
1: gptboot0
2: swap0
3: zfs0.
Should I keep the (U)EFI partition? And if so, how do I mount the
future
openBSD root partition to this (U)EFI installation? Are there any
other
things I should watch out for? I look forward to receiving responses
from this community. Sincerely, Karel.
