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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD Systems on a Single Disk
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:35:22 -0700 (MST)
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> >And should be fixed (I've mentioned this before) to boot from the
> >first ACTIVE (flag 0x80) FreeBSD slice.  Should be a trival amount
> 
> That would mainly break certain configurations.  The active flag
> should only be set for one partition, so you shouldn't have any active
> FreeBSD partitions if you have an active DOS partition.

The boot managers (at least the one he's been pushing) set the
active partition to the one selected for boot.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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