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

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
Girish Venkatachalam-2 wrote: > > 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 hav

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
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... On a hard drive with only OpenBSD slices, grub will usually be installed on the first slice, the one with the large

Re: : Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:00:04AM -0700, Andrei wrote: > Josh Grosse wrote: > > > > 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

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
Josh Grosse wrote: > > 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

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

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