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Originally Posted by bsdnewbie999
I have some problems with CHS format because i don understand how to allocate BIOS starting cylinder, head and sector. I'm planning to make a dual boot between XP and openbsd and I'm afraid that wrong allocation will break the XP.
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Three points to you should take away:
- When multibooting Windows with anything, install Windows first.
- There is a question during installation:
Code:
Do you want to use *all* of wd0 for OpenBSD? [no] no
...which determines whether the boot sector is to be overwritten or not. More information can be found in Section 4.5.2 of the FAQ:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Disks
- Multibooting with Windows XP is covered in the FAQ as well. See Section 4.8 for information on copying the PBR to Windows in order to use Windows' boot manager.
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting
You will also save yourself a significant amount of anxiety by studying
all of Section 4 which covers the entire installation process:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html