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To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD partitions on the same (SCSI) disk
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Nadav Eiron wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Andreas Terzis wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have the following problem: I used to have NT and FreeBSD (2.1.6R) on
> > the same box. I removed NT and put FreeBSD 2.2.2R on the first partition
> > in the place of NT.
> > The problem is that right now Ican get, via the boot mananger, only to
> > the 2.2.2R partition and not to the 2.1.6.
> > Any solutions?
> 
> Put them on different disks :-(. FreeBSD can only boot from a single
> partition on a disk (it always uses the first partition it finds).
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andreas Terzis
> >
> Nadav
put the root  for the 2.1.6 stuff in a partition in the first slice as
well,

sd(0,a)/kernel would be 2.2.2
sd(0,g)/kernel would be 2.1.6

you can then re-user the old 2.1.6 root partition as /tmp or something..