Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-08-25 Thread Lars Nooden
You can probably run vista natively on OpenBSD depending on the version. OpenVista and WorldVista are quite similar, but FOIA Vista will take more tweaking. Otherwise, install OpenBSD first and then, second, your favorite linux flavor and work from that, grub is usually good about finding

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-08-24 Thread Sviatoslav Chagev
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

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-08-24 Thread Robert
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:05:17 + Sviatoslav Chagev sl...@zb.lv 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

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-20 Thread ropers
2009/5/16 Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl: Many others have suggested various solutions, but I wrote up a solution I would consider easy at http://www.joachimschipper.nl/Dual-booting OpenBSD and Vista. (It wouldn't be the first time I loaned someone my laptop for a couple of

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-19 Thread Whyzzi
When I've required it, I used Smart BootManager http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ Now seeing as it hasn't really been updated since 2001 GAG might be better.. 2009/5/18 Bryan bra...@gmail.com: On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:19, Joachim Schipper I multi-boot Vista/OpenBSD on one of my

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-18 Thread Bryan
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:19, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:08:14PM +0430, MANI wrote: Hi, First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:08:14PM +0430, MANI wrote: Hi, First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, the other OS is

Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread MANI
Hi, First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, the other OS is Microsucks Windows Vista AFAIK one of the way of dual booting is

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Lars Nooden
MANI wrote: First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, I know a few that tried the dual boot thing for a while with that sucky

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
Recommended solution from my job ;-) Make image of your Windows with VMware converter Remove Windows from your laptop/desktop Install VMware ESX on server Place images of your Windows (and colleagues Windows) on ESX and boot them Install favorite OS on your laptop/desktop (in my case OpenBSD) at

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: MANI mm.m...@gmail.com Subject: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, the other OS

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
MANI wrote: and why I can not boot to OpenBSD using bootable cd ? boot hd0a:/bsd not working for me. That should work... What happens? Nick.

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Cem Kayali
Peter Kay - Syllopsium, 05/15/09 12:57: From: MANI mm.m...@gmail.com Subject: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my PC at Office because of some proprietary

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Aline Freitas
Lars Nooden wrote: I've not see a port of WINE to OpenBSD for some time, but it'd be worth a try, just in case. Regards -Lars http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.19 What's new in this release (see below for details): [...] - OpenBSD compilation fixed. [...] 16660 build broken in

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread James Hartley
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:38 AM, MANI mm.m...@gmail.com wrote: How can I make openbsd.pbr. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting You should also read the following if you want to use Vista's boot manager: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=23676

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Lars Nooden wrote: I've not see a port of WINE to OpenBSD for some time, but it'd be worth a try, just in case. Actually I was just looking at this last night and it's not working yet. Getting closer all the time and good progress was done for sure looks like, but still some issues are not

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
It's really good to know that there's someone working recently on bringing Wine to OpenBSD. It really isn't a trivial port =( On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: I've not see a port of WINE to OpenBSD for some time, but it'd be worth a

Re: Multiboot OpenBSD with Vista

2009-05-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: It's really good to know that there's someone working recently on bringing Wine to OpenBSD. It really isn't a trivial port =( No it' snot. But I think Hustin is kind of stuck a bit. He got it to compile, etc. But it crash when run simple things and looks like it