From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 13:57:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00761 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00630 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21368; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:57:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <350EF1B5.FB45983@dal.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:57:09 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA-0316 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Gregory G. Losik wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > Wonder if someone would clarify why I can't dual boot two different > > versions of fbsd located in wd0s2(2.2.2) and wd0s4(2.2.5)? > > Our boot blocks are pretty dumb; it searches for the first slice with the > correct type and boots it. You won't be able to boot wd0s4 unless you > disable wd0s2 first. Isn't this one of the things that the new slice code is supposed to fix? Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message