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Old 1st June 2017
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I am interested in multibooting Ubuntu and OpenBSD. I did read the section on the faq, but I was really interested in, was finding out if it's possible to use full disk encryption with two operating systems installed, or at least have them both installations encrypted separately?

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They use different, non-compatible encryption systems. Treat each OS and its MBR/GPT partitions as separate entities.
  • You will make mistakes. Data will be lost. So practice using spare equipment. Do NOT use any production system as your test bed.
  • Back up your production systems before beginning your multiboot transition. Yes, you will have already practiced on spare equipment, but you may still make a mistake resulting in data loss.
Using multiple drives will be a superior solution.
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Oh, , and if the system cannot boot using MBR and must use EFI with GPT partitions, be aware that OpenBSD does not support "multiboot" with GPT at this time.
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It is possible to dual boot an OpenBSD gpt partition but you need to use a 3rd party bootloader.

The links below are not officially supported, proceed at your own risk.

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/201...-about-gptefi/

https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall

https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/refind
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I have had success multibooting OpenBSD on a GPT disk in UEFI mode.

The OpenBSD installer copies their UEFI bootloader from /usr/mdec/bootx64.efi (bootia32.efi for 32-bit systems) to the /EFI/BOOT/ directory on the EFI system partition.

To start the OpenBSD bootloader, I used systemd-boot with this configuration:
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# $ESP/loader/entries/openbsd.conf

title OpenBSD
efi /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
I don't think I tried it with GRUB but this may work:
Code:
menuentry 'OpenBSD' {
    set root=(hd0,4)
    chainloader /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
}
EDIT: the "root" in the above example would be the EFI system partition.

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@Head_on_a_Stick.

Could you share your partition scheme? I'm mainly interested in Debian 9/OpenBSD using Debian's Grub2.
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If using mbr, it's really easy.

http://srobb.net/openbsdmultiboot.html
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@Head_on_a_Stick.

Could you share your partition scheme?
I don't actually have that system any more but it was fairly simple: a 512MiB EFI system partition (type "ef00" in gdisk, FAT32-formatted), a standard GNU/Linux partition (type "8300", btrfs) and an OpenBSD disklabel ("a600").

The OpenBSD installer used the pre-existing ESP as /dev/sd0i

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any ideas about OpenBSD + Windows FDE while using Windows boot manager?
first softraid crypto for OpenBSD and veracrypt for windows?
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Was I unclear?
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They use different, non-compatible encryption systems. Treat each OS and its MBR/GPT partitions as separate entities.
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The initial question was about Ubuntu, so that's why I asked.
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I currently dual boot Slackware64-current and OpenBSD 6.1. Lilo is installed to the MBR. I put the following addition at the tail end of /etc/lilo.conf. This assumes that swap is sda1, / is sda2, /home is /dev/sda3, and OpenBSD is on /dev/sda4.

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