On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Francisco Valladolid Hdez. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- thacrazze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I put the openbsd.pbr to C: and made an entry in the >> C:/boot.ini >> >> Can someone help me how to start OpenBSD correctly? > > OpenBSD partition must be active (flag) and try using > GAG software. > > http://gag.sourceforge.net > > I'm using OpenBSD 4.4 Beta and XP together. >
No, this is a lie! -Windows- must be the active partition for the setup he is going for (using NTLDR to boot). You set Windows to be active so that the BIOS boots Window's bootloader (NTLDR), and then that reads C:\boot.ini and sees the options for the second stage bootloader: "Windows" "OpenBSD.pbr" and then it jumps into one of those. It's true, you could use GAG or GRUB or LILO or something else, but doesn't it seem more elegant to just rely on the base systems? The hardest part about doing this is using dd properly to slice out openbsd.pbr because it's one of those cases where if you get almost any character wrong then it'll seem to work until you paste it into Windows and try to use it and at best it mysteriously hangs, at worst it sings the death chant of kalla-kern and zombies rise from under your server room tiles. -Nick