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Old 17th May 2017
beiroot beiroot is offline
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Thanks, for the info.
I did install OpenBSD with encryption and dualbooting it with Windows.
Something that surprised me though, maybe you guys can explain?

According to the FAQ I need to copy the first 512b from the booting drive (PBR) to a seperate file a point windows to boot from there.
In my case there is a single drive (sd0). The softraid encryption was done, so the proper partitions are on the softraid drive sd2. I thought I needed to copy the first 512b from rsd2a, which contains the root partition. That didn't work. To my surprise, I need to copy pbr from the rsd0a, so the RAID partition. Why?

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My other questions is about the Windows encryption. What would be the best method? I can't user Bitlocker (motherboard/BIOS doesn't support TPM). Should I use VeraCrypt? I've never used it with dualboot. I only used Truecrypt to perform FDE.
Should I encrypt only the system partitions? Can I later encrypt the other windows partitions as well?
Or should I use FDE? How will it affect the existing OBSD partitions?
What about providing the password? It will be before the Windows boot manager, right?
How will it work? Provide password -> select OS. If OBSD -> provide password?
OR:
If windows -> provide password
If OBSD -> press escape -> select Obsd -> provide password?

Sorry for so many detailed questions, but I'm doing a dualboot with encryption for the first time.
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