On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:39 AM Colin Tree <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for a great o/s and the work put in by your many developers.
>
> I'm an old fart, (60+yo), have been using Linux for 25 years and xxxxbsd
> for about 20 years.
>
> I am tending to OpenBSD for all it's many strengths and simplicity and
> getting away from systemd, etc.
>
> When some of my apps become available for BSD I'll be able to loose
> Linux (long ago lost my legacy Windows apps).
>
>
> Unfortunately installing multiboot has failed.
>
> Grub2 was released about a year ago, and now supports direct booting
> OpenBSD.
>
> Installation and use of OpenBSD is great, only marred by old advice on
> configuring grub. (makes it hard to use OpenBSD when it won't boot ;)
>
> Now that hard drives often exceed 2TB we will tend to use GPT for
> partitioning, with an EFI partition at gpt1, openbsd partition fits
> nicely as gpt2
>
> chainloader +1 has failed since going to a gpt disk and after a bit of
> learning I've put together a more correct way to use grub2.
>
> my grub.d/40_custom now looks like this
>
> menuentry "OpenBSD" {
> insmod part_gpt
> insmod part_bsd
> set root=(hd0,gpt2)
> echo 'Loading OpenBSD 6.7 ...'
> kopenbsd --root=sd0a /bsd
>
>
> 1st - keeping note of the disklabel where the / partion was
> installed, in my case sd0a
>
> 2nd - reboot to see what grub wants to call your partition
> # at the grub boot menu,
> # c for command prompt
> # ls to show partitions ... (hd0,gpt3)
> (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,gpt1)
> # help kopenbsd to show options
>
> # reboot to linux and edit 40_custom
> # run update_grub
> # reboot
>
>
>
I dualboot windows 10 & openBSD using refind, its very easy to configure
>
> Go well,
>
> Colin Tree
>
>
