From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 15:20:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09270 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from slave2.aa.net (slave2.aa.net [204.157.220.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09257 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbx@aa.net) Received: from okanogan.dbx.seattle.wa.us (cust58.max7.seattle-k56.aa.net [206.125.81.58]) by slave2.aa.net (8.9.0.Beta3/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA32319 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:19:57 -0700 X-Intended-For: Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:22:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Burks X-Sender: dbx@okanogan.dbx.seattle.wa.us To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dual booting FreeBSD and FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I would like to create root partitions for three different versions of FreeBSD on the same disk (wd0, if it matters). I've installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 on two of the partitions so far, but whenever I boot, but no matter how I boot, it always boots from the first partition, not the second. (If it matters, I've tried by choosing the proper F? key under the FreeBSD boot manager, choosing the partition from the "Boot: " prompt, and by using the Minix boot manager). Poking around the system and FreeBSD WWW site yields no definite information, though hints that it can't be done. To cut to the chase, is there a way to boot different versions of Free- BSD from the same disk? After all, I can boot FreeBSD, Windows 95, and Minix from the same disk, why not FreeBSD-2.2.7, FreeBSD-stable, and FreeBSD-current? I'd be shocked if no one else has ever tried this, and hope I have not missed anything obvious. Thanks! Any suggestions, pointers, and hints welcomed. Doug Burks 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool dbx@aa.net than to put up a Web site and remove all doubt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message