Thank you, that works! I follow your tips, but I reformatted my windows partition with FAT32 and then I made the openbsd.pbr and put it in C: and made an entry in the boot.ini and now it works
--thacrazze (is happy) On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Andrew Dalgleish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM, thacrazze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I put the openbsd.pbr to C: and made an entry in the C:/boot.ini >> >> After a reboot I can select the OpenBSD boot entry, but it doesn't starts >> I get only a black screen with some cryptical characters/symbols >> >> Then I testet in Windows "BootPart", which was recommended in the FAQ >> and that says: >> >> Physical numer of disk 0 : 33fa33f9 >> 0 : C:* type=7 <HPFS/NTFS>, size=10241406 KB, Lba Pos=63 >> 1: C: type=a6 , size= 21213832 KB, Lba Pos=20482875 >> >> Can someone help me how to start OpenBSD correctly? > > > The first thing is to check your install actually boots. > Boot from an OpenBSD floppy or CD, and at the "boot" prompt type: > boot hd0a:/bsd > > > If that boots ok: > Use fdisk to set the OpenBSD partition active and try booting from the > hard disk. > > > If the hard disk boots ok > Use dd to copy the OpenBSD partition boot record onto a fat format usb > stick (your main drive is NTFS) > Use fdisk to set the windows partition active. > Reboot into windows. > Copy the PBR from your USB stick > Edit boot.ini > > If that fails, post your full dmesg, disklabel and fdisk of wd0. > (I'm guessing that your wd0a is not at the start of the partition) > > > You do NOT need grub > You do NOT need gag > You do NOT need wunderboot-of-the-week. > The OpenBSD partition should NOT be marked active if you are trying to > use the NT boot loader. > Make sure the line-endings in boot.ini are all CR-LF. > > You can set up OpenBSD to dual-boot with XP or Vista without any extra tools. > (Vista is not as simple as editing boot.ini, it is not particularly > hard either.)
