2008/7/29, Ted Unangst :

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> On 7/29/08, thacrazze  wrote:

>

> > I want a dualboot with windows xp, and for this I used the FAQ

>  >  http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting, but when I run the

>  >  command "installboot" i get only "ksh: installboot: not found" and

>  >  when I execute "dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1" I get

>  >  only "dd: /dev/rsd0a: Device not configured"

>  >

>  >  can someone help me?

>

>

> don't copy commands from a web page and run them without thinking.

>  first off, installboot probably already ran, but "installboot" is

>  definitely not the right way to run it.  second, you need to figure

>  out what kind of disk you installed on.  if you included dmesg,

>  somebody could tell you, but it's going to be wd.

>

"Note: this is a really good time to remind you that blindly typing

commands in you don't understand is a really bad idea. This line will

not work directly on most computers. It is left to the reader to adapt

it to their machine."
from: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting
try: dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1