On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:19, Joachim Schipper <joac...@joachimschipper.nl> wrote: > 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. > > B B B B B B B B Joachim > > I multi-boot Vista/OpenBSD on one of my homeservers. I use GAG. it "Just Works"
http://gag.sourceforge.net/
