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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Andreas Terzis <terzis@CS.UCLA.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD partitions on the same (SCSI) disk
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Andreas Terzis wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have the following problem: I used to have NT and FreeBSD (2.1.6R) on 
> the same box. I removed NT and put FreeBSD 2.2.2R on the first partition
> in the place of NT. 
> The problem is that right now Ican get, via the boot mananger, only to
> the 2.2.2R partition and not to the 2.1.6. 
> Any solutions?

Put them on different disks :-(. FreeBSD can only boot from a single 
partition on a disk (it always uses the first partition it finds).

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas Terzis
> 
Nadav