From owner-freebsd-small Sun Feb 11 3:24:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from plasma.thetac.com (plasma.thetac.com [203.102.212.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6BE737B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 03:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1739 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2001 09:26:48 -0000 Received: from station01.thetac.com (203.102.212.238) by plasma.thetac.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2001 09:26:48 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010211221904.022c0448@mail.thetac.com> X-Sender: ma000001@mail.thetac.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:24:40 +1100 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gary Barnden Subject: Booting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_1210639487==_.ALT" Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=====================_1210639487==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hello All Problem: It is near impossible to have two FreeBSD partitions on a single HDD and boot between them ( i say this from the point of view that it is impossible to maintain this configuration when doing an upgrade on the Second FBSD Partition). So i was wondering if anyone out there has booted PicoBSD from anyting other than a FreeBSD partition ie DOS, ext2fs etc Thanks Kind regards Gary Barnden (Network Engineer) _______________________________________ Braenet Pty Ltd Corporate Internet Solutions A "Cisco Enabled Regional ISP" 1/59-61 Burrows Road Alexandria NSW 2015 Ph: 1300-368-081 Fax: (02) 9565-1848 Email: g.barnden@braenet.com.au Enquiries: info@braenet.com.au Web: http://www.braenet.com.au --=====================_1210639487==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Hello All

Problem:

It is near impossible to have two FreeBSD partitions on a single HDD and boot between them ( i say this from the point of view that it is impossible to maintain this configuration when doing an upgrade on the Second FBSD Partition). So i was wondering if anyone out there has booted PicoBSD from anyting other than a FreeBSD partition ie DOS, ext2fs etc

Thanks

Kind regards

Gary Barnden (Network Engineer)
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Braenet Pty Ltd
Corporate Internet Solutions
A "Cisco Enabled Regional ISP"
1/59-61 Burrows Road
Alexandria NSW 2015
Ph: 1300-368-081 Fax: (02) 9565-1848
Email: g.barnden@braenet.com.au
Enquiries: info@braenet.com.au
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