On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:05:17 +0000 Sviatoslav Chagev <[email protected]> wrote:
> OpenBSD's boot(8) has a very cool command: 'machine boot <drive>'. As > far as I can tell, this command simply transfers control to the boot > code in the master boot record or in the primary boot record of the > selected drive/partition. > > I have an AMD64 computer with 2 hard drives: SATA 500 GB, the whole > disk is used by Vista x64; IDE 80 GB, most part is used by > OpenBSD/amd64 and a small chunk by Windows XP x86. In BIOS, the IDE > drive is set to be the 'first' one. So when the computer boots, if I > want to boot into Vista, I just type machine boot hd1 and Vista boots > without a complaint. > > BTW, why isn't 'machine boot' mentioned in FAQ about multi-booting? > More than that, it's not even mentioned in the i386 and amd64 man > pages. Thats easy: Because no one put it there. Not every case can be touched by the documentation and not having "Windows" on the first harddrive in the system, isn't that common. If you feel strongly bout it, I am sure nick@ will atleast read the diff for the FAQ addition, if you send it to him. - Robert
