On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:08:14PM +0430, MANI wrote: > Hi, > > First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC > at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my > PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, > the other OS is Microsucks Windows Vista > AFAIK one of the way of dual booting is to copy openbsd.pbr on Drive C > of windows, but How can I make openbsd.pbr. and why I can not boot to > OpenBSD using bootable cd ? boot > hd0a:/bsd not working for me. > > OpenBSD is on rwd0a - rwd0f and Vista is on rwd0g and rwd0h. If I go > to shell on bootable cd and type: > > mount -t ffs /dev/wd0a /mnt > > I can mount wd0a wich is my root partition on /mnt and everythings > seems ok. So what is the easiest solution to dual booting ?
Many others have suggested various solutions, but I wrote up a solution I would consider easy at http://www.joachimschipper.nl/Dual-booting OpenBSD and Vista. (It wouldn't be the first time I loaned someone my laptop for a couple of minutes. Being able to say "turn it on, select Windows" is nicer than having to tell them which arcane incantations to enter...) A bootable CD should work too. I suppose you could do some tricks with VMWare and the like. But the above is what I use, and I've had no issues. Joachim
