Em Qua, 2007-10-10 C s 21:49 +0200, Christopher Bianchi escreveu: > Hello everyone. My situation is this: > i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without > cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot > from USB. > So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the > procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it. > > Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the > bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ? > > I've tried google, but nothing :-( > > Thanks for the attention > > Christopher Bianchi >
1 - Use some free tool to create a new partition on your hard-disk, if you lose Win 2k bye-bye 2 - Install grub on Windows (*) and attach it's stage1 file to boot.ini(**) 3 - Add an entry to grub's menu.lst so it can boot bsd.rd from virtualy anywhere on your hd. (***) See: http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/ (***) menu.lst example: title OpenBSD Installer # Windows on the first partition of the first drive root (hd0,0) # Grub will found the file if compiled with fat/ntfs support kernel /boot/bsd.rd boot ------ (**) boot.ini example: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 200 Professional" c:\boot\stage1="Grub" ----- (*) grubinstall command line example: Run cmd.exe, them: c:\> grubinstall -d (hd0,0) -1 C:\boot\stage1 -2 C:\boot\stage2
