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Hello,

I've attempted something similar on my home box and I screwed up
everything.
I had a -Stable partition and I've added a 3.0-Release partition.
The net result was I could no more boot the Stable partition. (in fact, I
wanted to clone my first Stable partition to make the aout-to-elf Stable
to Current transition)

I haven't investigated to know wether this is a limitation of FreeBSD or
BootEasy (very likely the latter's fault).

My solution : use a second disk and have one bootable FreeBSD partition
on each disk (this works : I have it now on my box)

	Hope this helps

	TfH

> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to use both -CURRENT and -STABLE, on different slices on
> the same disk. The first slice is for -CURRENT(a DOS one that I'm
> nuking) and the second is for -STABLE.
> 
> I use the 2.2.7-RELEASE bootdisk to fdisk and disklabel the -CURRENT
> slice. However, when I reboot the boot:-prompt says "empty partition",
> and "kernel not found". Fdisk also shows the flag "C"(as in
> compatibility) for the first slice.
> 
> To boot -STABLE again, I must remove the newly added slice.
> 
> I though the removal of the compat devices should enable me to do
> something like this. Is this possible or must I use two different
> disks?
> 
> Please CC me since I'm not on this list.
> 
> Regards, Tommy(thallgren@yahoo.com)
> 
> 
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