Re: EFI: Booting from other (not the first) GPT partition possible? How? It's an Apple :-O

2015-11-16 Thread Marcel Timm
location. :( Is there another way of telling the kernel which root device to use (maybe at boot's prompt - although I haven't found anything in man page..)? If this seems to be a XY question to you, I am happy about other proposals. Greetings Marcel On 11.11.2015 16:01, Marcel Timm wrote: Hello! My

EFI: Booting from other (not the first) GPT partition possible? How? It's an Apple :-O

2015-11-11 Thread Marcel Timm
Hello! My computer is a MacBook Pro 8,2. There is a GPT on the HD (big surprise!) with four partitions, the last one being of type OpenBSD. I managed to put a recent OpenBSD 5.8 snapshot there by booting and installing from an USB stick via EFI created like that (in OSX): dd