Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:26:49 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org Cc: abial@korin.warman.org.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, sherwink@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD Systems on a Single Disk Message-ID: <199707300426.OAA31416@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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. Mine doesn't :-). It stores the default partition number in its code and ignores the active flags. It passes a pointer to the partition being booted in es:si (same as booteasy), but the secondary bootstrap shouldn't assume this. Bruce
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