Multi boot question XP and Openbsd after installation
hello, I have installed Openbsd on my computer. The manual says now for multi-booting with XP you must do dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 but if i do this i get a error-message that rsd0a does not exist how can i make this right. Roelof
Re: Multi boot question XP and Openbsd after installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have installed Openbsd on my computer. The manual says now for multi-booting with XP you must do dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 but if i do this i get a error-message that rsd0a does not exist how can i make this right. Roelof Apparently, you are refering to: http://www.openbsd.org/o/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting funny, I was just doing a slight update to that section. It is dissapointing how many people will just stupidly enter a command line into their computer without understanding what it does. It is even more amazing how people will do this when it involves the BOOT LOADER. MY GOODNESS, do you have ANY idea what you could do to your data? The new text: Note: this is a really good time to remind you that blindly typing commands in you don't understand is a really bad idea. This line will not work directly on most computers. It is left to the reader to adapt it to their machine. PLEASE re-read the very first paragraph of that section (the one starting with Multibooting is having...) OVER AND OVER until it sinks in. This is really scary stuff, 'specially combined with some of your other questions Nick.
Re: Multi boot question XP and Openbsd after installation
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 05:03:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have installed Openbsd on my computer. The manual says now for multi-booting with XP you must do dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 but if i do this i get a error-message that rsd0a does not exist how can i make this right. Roelof The name of disks is dependent on what type of disk you have. On some systems, it should be /dev/wd0a; on others, /dev/sd0a; and so on. See dmesg and /etc/fstab for which disk you have. Joachim
Re: Multi boot question XP and Openbsd after installation
On 10/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Openbsd on my computer. The manual says now for multi-booting with XP you must do dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 Please don't type commands on the console that you don't understand beforehand. You will want read the manual pages and other documentation before typing. It will save you a world of pain later on. The manual provides an example which you should adapt to your particular situation, not a cookbook recipe. OpenBSD has excellent documentation; please use it. During install, you selected the drive to install OpenBSD onto. Use that drive. sd0 (or its raw-device counterpart rsd0) is only an example. but if i do this i get a error-message that rsd0a does not exist In that case, sd0 doesn't exist and you did not install OpenBSD onto it. Find and use the correct drive. Then things should be fine. how can i make this right. For a hint on what the correct drive is, you can use dmesg(1) or your fstab(5). Cheers, Rogier -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
