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Doug White wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Gregory G. Losik wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Wonder if someone would clarify why I can't dual boot two different
> > versions of fbsd located in wd0s2(2.2.2) and wd0s4(2.2.5)?
>
> Our boot blocks are pretty dumb; it searches for the first slice with the
> correct type and boots it. You won't be able to boot wd0s4 unless you
> disable wd0s2 first.
Isn't this one of the things that the new slice code is supposed to
fix?
Doug
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