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Which is the best boot manager for OpenBSD?
I wonder which is the best boot manager for BSD system, starting from OpenBSD.
I speak about active project. |
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They all suck imo. Personally I prefer to just flag the active partition in fdisk. For example on my netbook if I need to boot into windoze, it looks something like:
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$ sudo fdisk -e sd0 Enter 'help' for information fdisk: 1> p Disk: sd0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0: 12 0 32 33 - 1436 21 57 [ 2048: 23068672 ] Compaq Diag. 1: 07 1436 21 58 - 6535 254 63 [ 23070720: 81930120 ] NTFS *2: A6 6536 0 1 - 19456 254 63 [ 105000840: 207575865 ] OpenBSD 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused fdisk: 1> flag 1 Partition 1 marked active. fdisk:*1> p Disk: sd0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0: 12 0 32 33 - 1436 21 57 [ 2048: 23068672 ] Compaq Diag. *1: 07 1436 21 58 - 6535 254 63 [ 23070720: 81930120 ] NTFS 2: A6 6536 0 1 - 19456 254 63 [ 105000840: 207575865 ] OpenBSD 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused fdisk:*1> quit Writing MBR at offset 0. $ Last edited by denta; 10th March 2012 at 10:27 AM. |
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Actually i think one limit of this solution is that can't be used on system with OS on more then 1 hdd without change the Bios for known which hdd should boot first. |
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Your post contains zero info about your requirements. So its hard to know what is limiting and what is not.
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That would be a mere observation how the boot managers have certain capabilities that can't be easily circumvented on other way. Nothing more, nothing less.
Personally, on in its simplicity, I found it very elegant and minimalist. For that matter I would like to have a question about it, when you are on windows and you want change again on OpenBSD, do you use the fdisk from the Cd with OpenBSD (using the Shell) or fdisk from Windows? My requirements is known if exist an open (and active - so don't dead project) boot manager solutions that work on every OS. Should be a package present on BSD system. Actually i made a research and on OpenBSD i found: $ pkg_info -Q grub grub-0.97p4 Is this grub legacy (grub 1) ? I prefer avoid grub2 for some unresolved issue with linux. |
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Using EaseUS partition manager atm. Not really recommending it, but its "free" and it seems to work
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I haven't gdisk installed on my system (Ubuntu 10.04) so i don't think that i'm using GPT.
Anyway how i can check, from inside openbsd, if have I really a GPT drive? |
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