On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:37:55PM +1000, RW wrote:
| Is it at all possible? If so what is the trick? I <did> flag the new
| MBR entry as active and I can't see anything in the docs that
| contemplates this kind of set-up.
|
| If there is an answer at Mother Google's I cannot construct a smart
| enough query to not be drowned in all the OpenBSD and <some other OS>
| questions.
|
| Anybody successful at this task?
I did something somewhat similar but I cheated from your point of
view. Using two disks this is trivial.
I installed wd0 (now sd0, thanks to dlg/ahci ;) with an amd64 snapshot
and partitioned the second drive in preparation for an i386 snapshot.
Now on the bootprompt, I can simply choose to boot hd0a:/bsd.mp or
hd1a:/bsd.mp. By fidgetting with boot.conf(8), you can make either
boot by default, or not boot anything by default (always wait for the
user to type something at the prompt).
Since the i386 and amd64 bootloaders support loading eachothers kernel
these days, this works great !
So, my suggestion for your case would be to simple add a (small/cheap)
drive per install. As long as the BIOS knows about the drive, you can
boot OpenBSD from it.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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