I recently attempted to dualboot my laptop with Windows XP. I was following the FAQ and came to the point where I issued this command:
"dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1" And the system tells me that: "/dev/rsd0a not configured" I did a google search to see if I did anything wrong and I found this site: http://darkuncle.net/OpenBSD/OpenBSD_dualboot.txt I found the following passage: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When you're done installing, pop in a USB key or floppy, mount it (for a USB key, I do "mount_msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt"; for a floppy, it's "mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt") and do the following to grab your OpenBSD primary boot record: # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=/mnt/openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 Now reboot the machine into Windows, and copy the openbsd.pbr file you just created to C:\openbsd.pbr in Windows. If you don't have a floppy or USB key available to tranfer your openbsd.pbr with, you can copy it to another machine on your network, reboot into Windows, and copy it back. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "dd" command above does allow me to save openbsd.pbr, and with this, I can dualboot. I just wanted to give a heads-up that if the FAQ doesn't allow you to dualboot, then the above might work. I thought that maybe it was a typo, since "rsd0a" and "rwd0a" differ by one letter, and those differing letters lie close on the keyboard.
