Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
[- Mon 4.Mar'13 at 17:26:32 + Stuart Henderson :-] > If you upgrade via the installer's (U)pgrade option then this *does* write > new boot blocks. > > You may get lucky if the old /boot doesn't get overwritten, but it's a good > idea not to count on this.. > > Also note tha

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-03-04, James Griffin wrote: > [- Mon 4.Mar'13 at 13:57:50 +0100 Janne Johansson :-] > >> Everytime a new bootblock gets written one needs to repeat the dd >> stuff, but a normal upgrade usually doesn't make a new bootblock for >> you. > > Yeah, that's what I figured. So i

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
[- Mon 4.Mar'13 at 13:57:50 +0100 Janne Johansson :-] > Everytime a new bootblock gets written one needs to repeat the dd > stuff, but a normal upgrade usually doesn't make a new bootblock for > you. Yeah, that's what I figured. So it should be alright then. Just thought I'd ask

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:53 AM, James Griffin wrote: > Hi > > I've got a machine which is dual-booting Windows 7 and OpenBSD current. > I am currently downloading the latest snapshot ready to upgrade but I > would like to know if this will affect the dual-boot set up. I put > my openbsd.pbr file

Re: Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread Janne Johansson
Everytime a new bootblock gets written one needs to repeat the dd stuff, but a normal upgrade usually doesn't make a new bootblock for you. 2013/3/4 James Griffin : > Hi > > I've got a machine which is dual-booting Windows 7 and OpenBSD current. > I am currently downloading the latest snapshot re

Upgrading Snapshots and Dual-booting

2013-03-04 Thread James Griffin
Hi I've got a machine which is dual-booting Windows 7 and OpenBSD current. I am currently downloading the latest snapshot ready to upgrade but I would like to know if this will affect the dual-boot set up. I put my openbsd.pbr file into Windows and followed the faq guide to get Windows boot manage