On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:47:16AM +0300, Alexander Belikov wrote: > GR> Dear fellows, > > GR> i have two disks, my first disk (wd0) is running XP, my second (wd1) > GR> is running openbsd 3.9. > GR> In order to boot openbsd from windows boot manager, i did the following: > > GR> $ dd if=/dev/rwd1a of=obsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 > GR> /* copied to windows c:\ and added the following line on boot.ini */ > > GR> c:\obsd.pbr="OpenBSD" > > GR> When i turn on the machine, i just get the selection screen. After > GR> selecting openbsd, nothing is showed. The screen is totally black with > GR> a blink cursor on top left corner. > > GR> Does anybody have any ideia why it does not work. > > GR> PS: Initially i believed it was because of XP and OBSD are on > GR> different HD, is it any sense? > > GR> Thanks in advance. > > Just install FreeBSD boot loader into MBR of first drive. It has an > option to boot from second drive.
Use GAG it works great (at least never failed me): http://sourceforge.net/projects/gag It has a (nice) OpenBSD icon as well :) Regards, ahb
