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From: Robert Clark <robertc@rio.pii.com>
To: Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NetBSD coexistence?
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I second the suggestion of os-bs.


I've used other approaches, like using a dos based scriptable partition
table tool like pfdisk.

In other words, save a copy of your current partition table, change the
order of the NBSD and FBSD entries, and then make a new copy of the
partition table.

Now the boot process goes something like:

Dos boots,
You choose your OS from a config.sys menu,
Pfdisk juggles the partition table,
FBSD boots your kernel of choice.

Why go to the trouble? If you can keep copies of your partition table
somewhere handy, you are not limited to only four OS per system.

Its also a way to have more than one version of FBSD on a single drive at
once.

[RC]

(You hear maniacal laughter in the distance.)


On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Craig Metz wrote:

> 
>   I'm trying to set up a box dual-boot (actually quad, but anyway) with NetBSD
> and FreeBSD. The problem is that they both use the same FDISK partition ID,
> and both seem to assume that the first partition with type A5 is theirs.
> FreeBSD gets bonus points for at least allowing one to install it on the
> second partition with type A5; NetBSD always seems to claim the first one for
> itself. So I have NetBSD on my second FDISK partition and FreeBSD on my third.
> 
>   The problem I'm now running into is that the FreeBSD boot loader defaults to
> looking at the NetBSD partition and I can't figure out how to get it to instead
> look at the FreeBSD partition. The kernel path syntax as I understand it
> doesn't really have a way of representing the FDISK partition number.
> 
>   Has anyone gotten a configuration like this to work, and what do you need to
> be done to untangle these?
> 
>   (I'm seriously toying with just twiddling the boot loader and kernel to use
> a different partition type)
> 
> 									-Craig
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