hi, I moved your reply under my statement for readability
I wrote:
> 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. >
On 6/5/06, akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Ok, I didn't test with vmware player, but with vmware 4. Setup was like: - dual-boot situation with win2k, 1harddisk - 1st and 3rd partition NTFS - 2nd partition ffs - the mbr had the nt boot loader, copy the pbr of the openbsd partition to a file on the windows system partition, point an entry in boot.ini to it (google will help you) - while making your openbsd disk slices, you have to make sure to stay away from the areas of the other partition - when both systems boot fine, just use the openbsd partition as raw disk (disable any options and helpers) I understand that vmware player is not as configurable through the gui, but the configuration is a text file, so it should be possible to achieve this (as in vmware created volumes are compatible with vmware player) hth, knitti
