I've been dual booting for years and never once use dd to copy the openbsd.pbr If I'm in windows world and want to boot into OpenBSD I run diskpart and flip the active partition. Same in the other direction, fdisk -e and flip the active back to windows. I am my own boot manager.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-t...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-t...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Bob Beck Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 12:15 PM To: Theo de Raadt Cc: Mark Kettenis; Stuart Henderson; Jean-Philippe Luiggi; OpenBSD technical list Subject: Re: 5.5 and dual-boot It will affect everyone who needs windows on a laptop for work - or filling out pdf forms for foundations, things like that. It is a good way to ensure snaps get tested less on real hardware. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> actually more painful than having to boot windows is to always have >> something handy to boot the snap from in order to dd the bootblock off >> in case you forget to do it before rebooting, or you're fucked. > > The new installboot was enabled around a month ago. The issue is only > being talked about now. > > Apparently... this dual-boot issue is only seen now, indicating that > these people don't upgrade very often, or participate in the test > cycles leading up to release. > > Hey, I get it. Just let's not over-estimate how many people this will > affect.
