[GLLUG] Windows 2K and OpenBSD playing nice together

[Clay Dowling]

I have used alternate tools before with good results.  Most OSs have a
boot manager available though, so I figured that I would save myself the
trouble of tracking one down and use what was built in.  Windows can
sometimes be tedious about dealing with boot managers as well, so using
their boot loader  avoided that problem.

Clay

nateM wrote:
> I've setup win2k and open bsd with grub before as well.  You can use
> chainloader +1 for wind0ze and also if you just want to hand off a
> unix/linux slice to the boto loader of the os, such as open bsd's regular
> boto loader or linux's lilo.  the cool thing is that you can actually boot
> the whole thing from grub by specifying the root partitio w/in the slice
> and the kernel --type=openbsd, etc.  a word of warning though, when i
> tried
> that w/ netbsd, netbsd didn't know how it had gotten there since it didn't
> have the environment given to it by its regular boto loader, so i had to
> compile into the kernel such things as the name of the root partitio so it
> could have a bit of context when it fires up.  i like grub.  of course, i
> still keep an osbs floppy aboot to take care of machines on which i never
> installed grub.
> --
> nate
>
> At 09:26 AM 5/31/2007 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote:
>>I assume you could use OSBS (for example) or any other boot loader that
>>gives you a choice of which partition to boot.  It would be simple to
>> install
>>the MBR boot loader from FreeBSD onto any computer, which does just that.
>>
>>Speaking of trying BSDs, I've been meaning to try installing PC-BSD to
>> see
>>their installer and windows-y package installation, I just don't have a
>>spare computer very handy.  I burned the cd and the installer looks
>> pretty
>>nice to me, but I don't have spare partitions on my laptop at this time.
>>PC-BSD is based on FreeBSD under the hood, probably just dressed up with
>>more user-friendlyness in the areas that need it.  Personally I prefer to
>>keep my admin skills sharp for work, and enjoy it, but I wouldn't mind
>> seeing
>>what PC-BSD has to offer (I think they are planning to import the
>> installer
>>into FreeBSD).
>>
>>On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Chick Tower wrote:
>>
>>    If OpenBSD doesn't have a boot manager, Clay, can you at least add
>> one?  Or
>>    do you always need another OS that provides one if you want to have
>> multiple
>>    OSs installed?
>>
>>                                   Chick
>>
>>
>>    Clay Dowling wrote:
>>   > The final problem was that of a boot manager.  OpenBSD doesn't ship
>> with
>>   > one.
>>
>>
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