On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:26:14PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Chris Dukes <pakrat@pr.neotoma.org> wrote:
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> > Multibooting is having several operating systems on one computer, and some means of selecting which OS is to boot. It is not a trivial task! If you don't understand what you are doing, you may end up deleting large amounts of data from your computer. New OpenBSD users are strongly encouraged to start with a blank hard drive on a dedicated machine, and then practice your desired configuration on a non-production system before attempting a multiboot configuration on a production machine. FAQ 14 has more information about the OpenBSD boot process.
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> If he has already multi-booted Windows and linux then multibooting
> OpenBSD would be trivial I guess

A couple of the Linux distributions automatically locate Windows
partitions and add them to the boot loader menu while configuring
the boot loader during configuration.
Toss in a default install choice of "Automatically reduce the size
of the Windows partition to be able to install Linux."

For added joy.
A few years ago if you bought a new PC you did not assemble yourself,
you would find two primary partitions consumed on the harddrive.
One for MS Windows.  One for the recovery partition.
Install Linux and a third primary partition would be consumed with
/boot and the 4th consumed with the extended partition.

Now I'm seeing new PCs with.
1) Primary partition for the M$ equivalent of /boot
2) Primary partition with the main M$ install
3) Primary partition with the recovery bits.

Install Linux and that 4th primary partition becomes the extended
partition.  No place for OpenBSD.

I like to think I know what I'm doing, and that's either getting
a screwdriver and swapping out the harddrive before installing
OpenBSD, or installing to a USB key for purposes of evaluation.
Or now that disabling the right bits with -c works with
current OpenBSD and kvm... run it under emulation when I have
to evaluate a new version.
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> --Siju

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Chris Dukes