Re: GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Peter Kay syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk wrote: OK, I should be more specific - what I got working was an OpenBSD install on a GPT disk which included Windows 7 installed in MBR mode. This involves some nasty hackery with OpenBSD fdisk, and was done at the time

Re: GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-04 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
Same for me. I heard some legends that windows 7 sp1+ boots/installs to gpt... but oops. Nope. I had already solaris and linux instlled there... i even left 1st ans 2nd partition for dummy m$ windoz but it failed... windows 8 said the same for me... m$ likes only m$dos partition table... Also

Re: GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-04 Thread Peter Kay
OK, I should be more specific - what I got working was an OpenBSD install on a GPT disk which included Windows 7 installed in MBR mode. This involves some nasty hackery with OpenBSD fdisk, and was done at the time because I thought I'd be installing OS X on the same disk. What I haven't

GPT should work? (was Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7)

2015-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Peter Kay syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk wrote: The method in the OpenBSD docs is a no extra tools required method. BCDedit makes it even easier. 1) Install Windows 7/8 on an MBR disk. GPT should work but requires more effort. Peter, if you have done this on a

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-07-01 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Alack to *OpenBSD* that have mach more SPAMERS!! On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: I must be migrate to another BSD which have not SPAM user and have responsible user and up2date document. Do everyone a favor and go _now_. -- [image: See you on my WEB]

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-30 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Yes, I'm correct. I must be migrate to another BSD which have not SPAM user and have responsible user and up2date document. *The final question:* Does the boot loader of OpenBSD ( first step of booting OpenBSD that display boot ) can boot other partiotions OS with boot command like *boot

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/30/15 04:22, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: Yes, I'm correct. I must be migrate to another BSD which have not SPAM user and have responsible user and up2date document. Please do. you are not correct. You created a boot.ini file. Nowhere under Windows 7 is boot.ini mentioned. You made up

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-30 Thread Peter Kay
The method in the OpenBSD docs is a no extra tools required method. BCDedit makes it even easier. 1) Install Windows 7/8 on an MBR disk. GPT should work but requires more effort. 2) As part of 1) create a partition for OpenBSD 3) Use OpenBSD fdisk to change partition type to A6, install on that

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-30 Thread Jiri B
Does the boot loader of OpenBSD ( first step of booting OpenBSD that display boot ) can boot other partiotions OS with boot command like *boot hd0a:/xyz* ? cheers. man 8 boot on amd64 box: DESCRIPTION The main purpose of this program is to load the system kernel while dealing with

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Jiri B
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 03:49:38PM +0330, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: Dear OpenBSD users, As I reported my issue was resolved by bootice and grub4dos. But on the second systems this procedure can not resolve dual booting. At the section of 4.9 of FAQ#4 told that creating openbsd.pbr file by

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Does the boot loader of OpenBSD ( first step of booting OpenBSD that display boot ) can boot other partiotions OS with boot command like *boot hd0a:/xxx* ? On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Mohammad BadieZadegan mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: I recreated openbsd.pbr and when I call this by file

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
I recreated openbsd.pbr and when I call this by file boot.ini that contain: * C:\openbsd.pbr=My OpenBSD* When I choose My OpenBSD at boot state it display me: *Loading.* *ERR M* I think that the file of openbsd.pbr is buggy. On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Jiri B ji...@devio.us wrote: On

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Dear OpenBSD users, As I reported my issue was resolved by bootice and grub4dos. But on the second systems this procedure can not resolve dual booting. At the section of 4.9 of FAQ#4 told that creating openbsd.pbr file by *dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1.* Is that command was 100%

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
/* *BUT*, all of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7? could you state a bit better what your problem is? I have dual-booting with Vista, which should be similar. Are you getting the initial windows boot loader with the choice

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Steven McDonald
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:11:20 +0330 Mohammad BadieZadegan mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: When I choose My OpenBSD at boot state it display me: *Loading.* *ERR M* ERR M means that the pbr successfully loaded a file into memory, but it wasn't a valid ELF executable. Most probably, this means

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Gleydson Soares
to booting dual OS like *http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/ http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/* *BUT*, all of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7?

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread James Hartley
://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/ http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/* *BUT*, all of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7?

Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7?

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread mbzadegan
-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/* *BUT*, all of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7?

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Have you tried EasyBCD? https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread mbzadegan
Yes ofcourse When I installed that I can boot to my FreeBSD but OpenBSD could not loaded for unknown reason. On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Maurice McCarthy m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: Have you tried EasyBCD? https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
hi. Maybe you can try grub4dos? Sorry for spam. have a nice $day_time On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 22:22 mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: Yes ofcourse When I installed that I can boot to my FreeBSD but OpenBSD could not loaded for unknown reason. On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Maurice McCarthy

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
mbzade...@gmail.com said: suggestion 1 about active partition did not work for me Details? suggestion 3 is completely wrong! Details? I've tried these options, and they worked as charm. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Matthew Clarke
-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/* *BUT*, all of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7? I use http://gag.sourceforge.net/ for that. -- Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/15 12:41, mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: I had read this FAQ page more than 10 times. well, then you need to keep reading it. The windows 7 multiboot process WORKS. I'm using it on at least two computers. It works. You are doing something wrong. The lack of details in your problem report

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/15 18:52, Nick Holland wrote: ... Nick. Facebook logo = ... (wtf? and it's even weirder looking in my outmail box. sorry for the noise)

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Joel Rees
of these pages nothing changed and could not running dual OS. Is that any hints about dual booting OpenBSD vs Windows7?

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
My Windows is 64Bit and Grub4DOS run only 32Bit Systems! On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Ruslanas Gžibovskis rusla...@lpic.lt wrote: hi. Maybe you can try grub4dos? Sorry for spam. have a nice $day_time On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 22:22 mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: Yes ofcourse When I

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-27 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Nice Project was Resolved with bootice [ http://reboot.pro/topic/8986-bootice-a-boot-sector-manipulation-utility-v078- released/] and grub4dos! Thanks to all for helping me. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Mohammad BadieZadegan mbzade...@gmail.com wrote: My Windows is 64Bit and Grub4DOS run