From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 18 20:59:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14723 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14717 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:59:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA04530; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:59:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:59:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Studded cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew) In-Reply-To: <350EF1B5.FB45983@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > > > 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? I would have no idea, I don't watch -stable. AFAIK the bootblocks don't have a *way* of specifying exactly which slice you want. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message