On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:39:41AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:01 AM, <za...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I was thinking of dual booting OpenBSd and Windows 8.1. Has anyone > managed > > > to do that? > > > I suppose I would have to install Windows first, and then OpenBSD. > > > Does the OpenBSD installation include a boot manager such as GRUB? > > > I have experience setting up dual booting with GRUB, when installing > > > Linux. Is it ok if I follow the same procedure with OpenBSD? If not, > how > > > would you advise me to go about it? > > > > > > > > > Why don't you follow official guide mentioned zillion of times everywhere > > around here? > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting > > Did you actually read that ? notice how it stops with Windows Vista/7 ? > It stops there because most probably devs were not in touch with Win 8+ to try it, but it works exactly as described for Win 7 > > > There's everything you need so best is to start with FAQ, then dive in to > > man pages (like man afterboot will be pointed to you after install > anyway). > > Nope, not really, not yet. > > For instance, good luck if you want to install everything on one > single disk, and that disk is large enough. > > We don't have UPT support yet, for instance... > Yeah, having machine which is able to boot good old BIOS and not UEFI only is first thing needed and for the disk size, well most of the laptops under 250GB, newer ones like 1TB, but those mostly some cheap machines have problems to run anything outside of Win/Lin and even those a lot of times with some issues. Reader was warned on start of that chapter that it's not easy task to do multiboot :-)
