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Old 13th June 2008
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Originally Posted by bsdnewbie999 View Post
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.
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

Last edited by ocicat; 13th June 2008 at 04:55 PM.
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