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Old 23rd July 2016
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I'm dualbooting Debian Testing with OpenBSD current on an i386 system.

I installed Debian with
/ = /dev/sda1
swap = /dev/sda2
/home = /dev/sda3

Leave space for OpenBSD on /dev/sda4

Use fdisk to label sda4 as an OpenBSD file system (Type A6). Then install OpenBSD into the OpenBSD partition. Do not use the whole disk!

Reboot to debian and add an OpenBSD chain loading command in /etc/grub. Run # update-grub

This is a rough overview - I can provide specifics if needed later.
I run a similar set-up dual booting Slackware 14.2 and OpenBSD 5.9. The only difference is that I add the following at the end of /etc/lilo.conf

other = /dev/sda4
label = OpenBSD
table = /dev/sda

After editing /etc/lilo.conf I run # lilo -P fix and reboot. That will do it.
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