Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-29 Thread Greg Thomas
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 1:13 PM Greg Thomas wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:25 AM Nick Holland > wrote: > >> >> from your dmesg: >> sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: >> naa.5000c500b98a130c >> sd0: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1953525168 sectors, thin >> sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: >> naa.500a

Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-28 Thread Greg Thomas
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 12:34 PM Clay Daniels wrote: > > I too need a Windows install, but I have moved it to my older 2014 machine > and kept my self-built toy for BSD. I think I need to buy me another SSD to > run NetBSD too. ;-) > Yeah, I'm super fortunate to have found this pretty much unuse

Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-28 Thread Greg Thomas
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 9:25 AM Nick Holland wrote: > > from your dmesg: > sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: > naa.5000c500b98a130c > sd0: 953869MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1953525168 sectors, thin > sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: > naa.500a07510369b769 > sd1: 488386MB, 512 bytes/sector, 1000215216 sector

Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-28 Thread Clay Daniels
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:25 AM Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-06-27 21:50, Greg Thomas wrote: > > Hey folks, I'm trying to avoid buggin y'all, but I'm down to my last two > > tasks, setting up dual boot with Windows 10 and setting up OpenVPN. I'm > > currently trying to troubleshoot "Loading...

Re: Dual boot problem

2020-06-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 2020-06-27 21:50, Greg Thomas wrote: > Hey folks, I'm trying to avoid buggin y'all, but I'm down to my last two > tasks, setting up dual boot with Windows 10 and setting up OpenVPN. I'm > currently trying to troubleshoot "Loading ERR M" while using Windows > BCD. I can boot no problem whe

Dual boot problem

2020-06-27 Thread Greg Thomas
Hey folks, I'm trying to avoid buggin y'all, but I'm down to my last two tasks, setting up dual boot with Windows 10 and setting up OpenVPN. I'm currently trying to troubleshoot "Loading ERR M" while using Windows BCD. I can boot no problem when selecting my boot drive while starting up my T

Re: : : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Cm'on Raimo. Tssk! Tssk! http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/grub/files/ I mostly use openports.se, rather than searching my own filesystem which is not quite conforming to the standard file hierarchy. :-) Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Louis V.

Re: Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Andrei
the same disk. The trick was to use 'A6' partition ID only for the active OpenBSD partition, and use another ID for all the rest ones. At least this worked for OpenBSD 4.2, I am not sure if this issue is planned to be fixed in future releases. -- View this message in context: http:

Re: : : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: > Not quite, you don't need a specific partition for grub.Grub only needs > to be installed > on the BIOS first boot device. > Which can be a hard drive, a floppy, a cdrom, an usb key... > Thank you for your correction. I looke

Re: : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
boot(8) can do it. You will have to modify /etc/boot.conf on the hard drive the BIOS boots. And there are of course other bootloaders out there... Andrei -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dual-boot-problem-tp16538144p16548546.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
nu.lst in the GRUB installation, so the GRUB installation will have to be writable from OpenBSD. As you found out OpenBSD's boot(8) can do it. You will have to modify /etc/boot.conf on the hard drive the BIOS boots. And there are of course other bootloaders out there... > > Andrei

Re: Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:00:04 Apr 08, Andrei wrote: > Thanks Josh, this works fine. The reason I did not consider boot.conf at the > beginning is that it concerns second-stage bootstrap, while I was trying to > find a solution first-stage bootstrap. Then you have to do it manually. OpenBSD is not very convenie

Re: Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Andrei
looking for. > Thanks Josh, this works fine. The reason I did not consider boot.conf at the beginning is that it concerns second-stage bootstrap, while I was trying to find a solution first-stage bootstrap. Andrei -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dual-boot-problem-t

Re: Dual boot problem

2008-04-07 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:04:41 -0700 (PDT), Andrei wrote > I have PC with two OpenBSD 4.2 - bootable harddisks. Clearly I can > boot from either of them by setting a boot sequence in BIOS or by > typing "boot hdXa:/bsd" in the boot prompt (X = 0 or 1). > > What I want is to specify a boot hdd withou

Dual boot problem

2008-04-07 Thread Andrei
using bootloader is better alternative, I would not mind much. Note that run everything in VMware, so I am not afraid to screw-up things. All suggestions are welcome. Andrei -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Dual-boot-problem-tp16538144p16538144.html Sent from the openbsd

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/25/06, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: viq wrote: > On Thursday 25 May 2006 09:22, Jan Johansson wrote: >> akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the NTLDR you want the PBR (Partition Boot Record) not the >> MBR (Master Boot Record). I changed the of= for correct the >> terminology

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
viq wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 09:22, Jan Johansson wrote: akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 Here is your error dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=pbr count=1 For the NTLDR you want the PBR (Partition Boot Record) not the MBR (Master Boot Record). I changed the of= for c

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Jan Johansson
viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While at the subject, you need to run this every time you > upgrade bootblocks. What would be the result of not updating > bootblocks when upgrading from snapshot? Sounds dangerous to me. Will old bootblocks be able to boot the kernel? > Or not rerunning that com

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread viq
On Thursday 25 May 2006 09:22, Jan Johansson wrote: > akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 > > Here is your error > > dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=pbr count=1 > > For the NTLDR you want the PBR (Partition Boot Record) not the > MBR (Master Boot Record). I changed the of= for

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Jan Johansson
akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 Here is your error dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=pbr count=1 For the NTLDR you want the PBR (Partition Boot Record) not the MBR (Master Boot Record). I changed the of= for correct the terminology the important part is the if= device. I us

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:56:20PM -0700, akonsu wrote: | hello, | | i have openbsd on the first partition on my hard drive, and windows xp on | the second partition. | i made the windows partition active. | | this is the command that i used to get the openbsd's mbr: | | dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr cou

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Przemyslaw Nowaczyk
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:56:20PM -0700, akonsu wrote: > this is the command that i used to get the openbsd's mbr: > > dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 > actually you need the pbr (partition boot record) not the mbr, look at FAQ 4.8, your command should look like: dd if=/dev/rwd0a of= bs=512 cou

dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread akonsu
hello, i have openbsd on the first partition on my hard drive, and windows xp on the second partition. i made the windows partition active. this is the command that i used to get the openbsd's mbr: dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 i copied the file "mbr" to my windows partition and added the fol