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Date:      Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:20:35 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009462835.9f5a5f@mired.org>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD?
Message-ID:  <15396.38579.391079.879876@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112212335420.47613-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
References:  <15395.65527.65231.234995@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112212335420.47613-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> types:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > > > Then, will, bootEZ will see both FreeBSD partitions, and allow booting
> > > > > either? This I haven't found an answer to.
> My experience with booteasy is that it boots from the first / partition
> it finds, and that some other boot manager (I use System Commander
> for this) is necessary to distinguish them (set one bootable rather
> than the other, I think).  However, maybe I didn't install booteasy
> again or whatever (or something has changed).  I've heard that GRUB
> will work in this situation, though.

That sounds like the standard boot loader, not booteasy. Should I be
wrong, Grub does work, and provides more control.

	<mike
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