Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Re: Installing openBSD

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 7:31 AM David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 01:00 +0800, ykla wrote:
> > Actually, I think it's a bug that OpenBSD cannot create EFI
> > partitions manually.
>
> I've installed OpenBSD many times in dualboot with linux (for some
> things we can't do right now on OpenBSD such as ESP32 development). And
> my take is to install Linux first, actually quite simple to go for a
> dual boot afterwards. I go back to linux and configure the bootloader
> (i.e. efibootmgr, grub, whatever you like).
>
> macOS and Windows are not really friendly in that area either. I can't
> blame an OS to not spend effort for those topics, being able to boot
> any OS from EFI is already good enough.
>
> --
> David
>
>
Note that multiboot with refind is trivial (UEFI only), it automatically
detects windows, linux and openbsd.
Just install them in that order, and refind at the end.

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