PS: I have figured now out that pressing the "option" key will load up
the boot menu, but I only see the Mac HD option... how can I add the
second partition, where openbsd lives, to that menu?

This is macosx fdisk output:

machorl(s000)| sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0        geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127  14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF   25 127  15 - 1023  78  28 [    409640 -  383516672] HFS+
 3: A6 1023 191  22 - 1023 164  49 [ 384190464 -  106043392] OpenBSD
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

2010/2/28 Pau <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I got the macbook pro and just installed a recent snapshot. I used
> that "bootcamp" programme of apple to resize the macosx partition. I
> then installed openbsd but since bootcamp thinks you want to install
> windows, the partition was formatted to vfat. I changed that in the
> fdisk menu to a6, managed to screw up the mbr, restored it with the
> apple install DVD and now macosx is again there... now... how do I
> boot into openbsd? Is there a way to do that having the mbr reserved
> for apple? Or do I have to install grub or so?
> Thanks,
>
> Pau
>
> 2009/11/30 Pau <[email protected]>:
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> thanks. Yes, I was imprecise. I was meaning a report on a recent
>> snapshot or 4.6
>>
>> I didn't find anything but it's good to see that the keyboard is
>> well-supported. Thanks,
>>
>> Pau
>>
>> 2009/11/29 Nick Guenther <[email protected]>:
>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Pau <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I will be soon getting a macbook pro 13" at work. I was wondering how
>>>> well this is supported by openbsd... Has anybody tried it? I have
>>>> googled and looked in the archives, but I seemingly was looking not
>>>> well enough or there are no reports...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Aaron Hsu has one, he's written a guide:
>>> http://www.sacrideo.us/v1/papers/openbsd_macbook.txt. I know when I
>>> went searching the archives I found more than just that, too, maybe
>>> try different keywords?
>>>
>>> You're lucky you're getting a pro, the non-pro one gave me all sorts
>>> of pain with OpenBSD.
>>>
>>> -Nick
>>>
>>
>
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