Multiboot

Multiboot Windows and OpenBSD with rEFInd

       1349 words, 7 minutes

A year ago, I wrote about multibooting Windows, Linux and OpenBSD on my laptop. Since then, lots have happened. The most relevant part is that Linux is gone and I only multiboot Windows and OpenBSD. If I had done it from the beginning, I would have used rEFInd rather than Grub. And here’s how.

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Multiboot Microsoft Windows, OpenBSD and Slackware Linux

       1381 words, 7 minutes

I got a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 and I’m not really happy with how the fan is managed by OpenBSD. Plus, the ThinkPad A485 running Windows for $WORK has been freezing quite a few times recently. So I decided I could try using a single ThinkPad for both $WORK and $HOME using different Operating Systems. I recently loved Slackware Linux again and wished I could use it too on that machine. So this is how I configured a multiboot environnement on the ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows 11, OpenBSD 7.3 and Slackware Linux 15.0. Note that I will encrypt as much storage as possible using the various available OS technologies.

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