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how to boot openbsd on second disk

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Old 02-18-2008, 06:11 AM
Gustavo Rios
 
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Default how to boot openbsd on second disk

Dear fellows,

i have two disks, my first disk (wd0) is running XP, my second (wd1)
is running openbsd 3.9.
In order to boot openbsd from windows boot manager, i did the following:

$ dd if=/dev/rwd1a of=obsd.pbr bs=512 count=1
/* copied to windows c:\ and added the following line on boot.ini */

c:\obsd.pbr="OpenBSD"

When i turn on the machine, i just get the selection screen. After
selecting openbsd, nothing is showed. The screen is totally black with
a blink cursor on top left corner.

Does anybody have any ideia why it does not work.

PS: Initially i believed it was because of XP and OBSD are on
different HD, is it any sense?

Thanks in advance.

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