On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 2:57 PM Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 09:10:59PM +0300, Leonid Bobrov wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 05:45:42PM +0000, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: > [...] > > > > Sure, what did you have to do in order to dualboot Windows and OpenBSD? > > > > I'm not experienced with dualbooting at all because I never need/must to > > use it. > > I remember the following as the steps not mentioned in the FAQ that helped > me > get it to work. All with MBR and Windows 10. > > 1. Shrink the main partition in Windows disk manager and create a second > partition. > 2. In the OpenBSD installer, run fdisk and change the type of the second > partition to OpenBSD (A6), otherwise keeping same size/offset. > 3. For softraid crypto, follow the FAQ for installation. You should create > the > RAID partition as 'a' on the OpenBSD part of the disk, leaving (in my > case > 'i' and 'j' intact. > > If the above steps help you or your friend to set it up, we can see if an > addition to the FAQ may be worth considering. > > Here my disklabel and fdisk from that setup: > > # /dev/rsd0c: > type: SCSI > disk: SCSI disk > label: WDC WDS500G2B0B- > duid: f2adf57b4715cd30 > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 60801 > total sectors: 976773168 # total bytes: 476940.0M > boundstart: 455473152 > boundend: 976769024 > drivedata: 0 > > 16 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 254539.0M 455473152 RAID > c: 476940.0M 0 unused > i: 500.0M 2048 NTFS > j: 221898.0M 1026048 NTFS > > Disk: sd0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *0: 07 0 32 33 - 63 221 30 [ 2048: 1024000 ] NTFS > > 1: 07 63 221 31 - 28247 27 2 [ 1026048: 452763710 ] NTFS > > 2: 27 28247 58 36 - 28351 195 4 [ 453791744: 1679360 ] Win > Recovery > 3: A6 28351 227 37 - 60801 15 14 [ 455473152: 521295872 ] > OpenBSD > > Leonid Bobrov, Nice patch to the web site, where on earth are any of the logs from your session? Not only could your mistaken assumptions been addressed but the documentation could have been made more robust. -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424
