On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:26:14PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Chris Dukes <pak...@pr.neotoma.org> wrote: > > > > Multibooting is having several operating systems on one computer, and some > > means of selecting which OS is to boot. It is not a trivial task! If you > > don't understand what you are doing, you may end up deleting large amounts > > of data from your computer. New OpenBSD users are strongly encouraged to > > start with a blank hard drive on a dedicated machine, and then practice > > your desired configuration on a non-production system before attempting a > > multiboot configuration on a production machine. FAQ 14 has more > > information about the OpenBSD boot process. > > > > > > > If he has already multi-booted Windows and linux then multibooting > OpenBSD would be trivial I guess
A couple of the Linux distributions automatically locate Windows partitions and add them to the boot loader menu while configuring the boot loader during configuration. Toss in a default install choice of "Automatically reduce the size of the Windows partition to be able to install Linux." For added joy. A few years ago if you bought a new PC you did not assemble yourself, you would find two primary partitions consumed on the harddrive. One for MS Windows. One for the recovery partition. Install Linux and a third primary partition would be consumed with /boot and the 4th consumed with the extended partition. Now I'm seeing new PCs with. 1) Primary partition for the M$ equivalent of /boot 2) Primary partition with the main M$ install 3) Primary partition with the recovery bits. Install Linux and that 4th primary partition becomes the extended partition. No place for OpenBSD. I like to think I know what I'm doing, and that's either getting a screwdriver and swapping out the harddrive before installing OpenBSD, or installing to a USB key for purposes of evaluation. Or now that disabling the right bits with -c works with current OpenBSD and kvm... run it under emulation when I have to evaluate a new version. > > --Siju -- Chris Dukes
