Of course this is all useless to the O.P. because you didn't include a link to a HOWTO.
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:04 +0200, "Raimo Niskanen" <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:59:25PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > > > >On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:48:26AM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: > > >>On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, J Sisson wrote: > > >> > > >>>On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM, <trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > >>>>You can actually have MANY more than 4 OS on one drive, but it does get > > >>>>rather > > >>>>complicated and not worth the effort which certainly wouldn't help here. > > >>> > > >>>The point was that OpenBSD requires a primary partition. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>Does it? This is my setup: > > > > > >Interesting... > > > > > >What MBR do you have that can select to boot from one of two > > >bootable partitions? Or do you use the Windows bootloader > > >to boot OpenBSD? Or is it GRUB at 7138/0/1? > > > > > >I would be interested in some more details... > > > > Of course I boot using the Vista bootloader and easybcd to edit the > > configuration, which saves a lot > > of headache. The important thing is it can be done. > > :) > > Very nice! > > It was not "Of course" to me since I vagely recall some BSD's MBR could > boot from extended partitions so that could have been how you did it, > but have heard stories about Windows restoring MBRs it does not > recognize. > And you might have used Grub in some interesting way... > > But yes, EacyBSD and Vista bootloader was my first guess, > and now it is confirmed. > > Again, very nice and thank you for sharing! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>~ $ fdisk sd0 > > >>Disk: sd0 geometry: 32301/240/63 [488397168 Sectors] > > >>Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > > >> Starting Ending LBA Info: > > >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>*0: 07 0 32 33 - 203 74 26 [ 2048: 3072000 ] NTFS > > >> 1: 07 203 74 27 - 7137 239 63 [ 3074048: 104852512 ] NTFS > > >> 2: 07 30946 178 19 - 32301 57 41 [ 467914752: 20480000 ] NTFS > > >>*3: 05 7138 0 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 107926560: 359976960 ] > > >>Extended DOS > > >>Offset: 107926560 Signature: 0xAA55 > > >> Starting Ending LBA Info: > > >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> 0: A6 7138 1 1 - 14072 239 63 [ 107926623: 104857137 ] > > >>OpenBSD > > >> 1: 05 14073 0 1 - 16153 239 63 [ 212783760: 31464720 ] > > >>Extended DOS > > >> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >> 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >>Offset: 212783760 Signature: 0xAA55 > > >> Starting Ending LBA Info: > > >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> 0: 83 14073 1 1 - 16153 239 63 [ 212783823: 31464657 ] Linux > > >>files* > > >> 1: 05 16154 0 1 - 16430 239 63 [ 244248480: 4188240 ] > > >>Extended DOS > > >> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >> 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >>Offset: 244248480 Signature: 0xAA55 > > >> Starting Ending LBA Info: > > >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> 0: 82 16154 1 1 - 16430 239 63 [ 244248543: 4188177 ] Linux > > >>swap > > >> 1: 05 16431 0 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 248436720: 219466800 ] > > >>Extended DOS > > >> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >> 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >>Offset: 248436720 Signature: 0xAA55 > > >> Starting Ending LBA Info: > > >> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> 0: 83 16431 1 1 - 30945 239 63 [ 248436783: 219466737 ] Linux > > >>files* > > >> 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > >> 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused > > > > > >-- > > > > > >/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB > > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
