Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:36:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP Message-ID: <199506260636.IAA21974@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <13565.804125202@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 01:06:42 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I'm curious why dual boot is a "no and possibly never"? > Just the amount of work involved is all. You can't have 2 FreeBSD > slices on a disk and boot from the second one as the boot code is too > stupid to understand that you might want to boot from something other > than the first one it finds. Except for the space constraints, it should be possible to extent the boot syntax from: driver(unit,part)/filename to driver(unit,[slice,]part)/filename -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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