Addendum to FAQ 4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386

2007-10-01 Thread Paul Stöber
If OpenBSD's MBR bootcode works for you (fdisk -u), you can hexedit it so that it will boot a fixed MBR partition (instead of the ``active'' one) if the user holds down either Alt key during boot. The marked byte at offset 0x35 tells the fixed MBR partition (04=first, 01=last). Offset 0x2B

Re: Addendum to FAQ 4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Stvber wrote: If OpenBSD's MBR bootcode works for you (fdisk -u), you can hexedit it so that it will boot a fixed MBR partition (instead of the ``active'' one) if the user holds down either Alt key during boot. The marked byte at offset 0x35 tells the fixed MBR partition (04=first,