From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 22 6:20:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33A9C37B417 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 06:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11600 invoked by uid 100); 22 Dec 2001 14:20:35 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15396.38579.391079.879876@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:20:35 -0600 To: Annelise Anderson Cc: hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? In-Reply-To: References: <15395.65527.65231.234995@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise Anderson 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message