On 04/06/2010 07:27 PM, Salvador Fandino wrote: > AFAIK, this procedure is not documented in any place and it is quite > handy in order to install OpenBSD on boxes that already have a recent > Linux inside and use grub2 as the boot manager: > > 0) do any preparatory work needed: backup your data, resize your > partitions, create a new one for OpenBSD, etc. > > 1) download bsd.rd and move it to the Linux root partition: > > # wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/i386/bsd.rd > # mv bsd.rd /openbsd.rd > > 2) add the following entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom > > menuentry "Install OpenBSD from RAM disk" { > set root=(hd0,1) > kopenbsd /openbsd.rd > } > > replacing (hd0,1) by the partition id corresponding to the Linux root > file system. > > (you may need to modify also /etc/default/grub in order to make grub2 > menu visible) > > 3) regenerate grub configuration: > > # update-grub
I'm on Gentoo Linux , so i think normally you should try with `grub-mkconfig' e.g grub-mkconfig > /tmp/grub.cfg && cp /tmp/grub.cfg /boot/grub/grub.cfg Not all system ships with `update-grub' script. > > 4) reboot: > > # reboot > > 5) When the grub menu pops up select "Install OpenBSD from RAM disk" > > > ... and install OpenBSD > > > Cheers, > > - Salva > -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0x4A6D32A0 FingerPrint EA63 26B2 6C52 72EA A4A5 EB6B BDFE 35B0 4A6D 32A0 irc: A4r0n on freenode
