akonsu wrote: > thanks. how did you achieve this? i downloaded an evaluation copy of vmware > workstation, created a machine with a raw disk pointing to my openbsd > partition but it won't boot. it says that there were no bootable drives > found. > > konstantin > > booting openbsd on a real partition both from bios and from vmware worked >> without flaw in my tests. why shouldn't it? it's a dual-boot situation, >> but you >> just have to make sure, the bootloader hits the right pbr. no magic. >> >> --knitti > > You must use your entire disk instead of only the partition were openbsd is installed. Unless you install the boot manager in the first sector of the partition. I had this problem several times. Just take care not to boot the same os that you are already booted (catastrophic).
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