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Originally Posted by TerryP
dd'd the first 512 bytes to /mnt2/openbsd.pbr (dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/mnt/openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1)
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What is the device name of the drive you are wanting to dual-boot? Am I correct assuming you are wanting to dual-boot Windows 7 & OpenBSD from the
same drive?
The steps enumerated above simply indicate that you have installed OpenBSD to a bootable USB flash drive. I suspect you want to
now boot the
bsd.rd kernel so you can install OpenBSD to the drive where you have hopefully freed up space. Most laptops still use IDE drives internally, so the device name of your intended boot drive will be
wd0 unless it is SATA or SCSI
(which I doubt...). Understanding
all of
Section 4.9 is critical.
Once you install OpenBSD to the
same drive where Windows 7 is installed,
then you will want to use
dd(1) to obtain the PBR & transfer it to Windows 7 boot partition.
However, once OpenBSD is installed, you will need to remember to
reset the MBR's active flag using
fdisk(1) to the Windows 7 boot partition in order to boot Windows. When the BIOS transfers control to the boot drive, it checks the MBR's active flag to determine which operating system to begin initializing. At that point, you should be able to transfer the correct PBR to Windows' boot partition.
If you are still experiencing problems, post the output of
dmesg(8) so we can see the drive topology in play.