From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 19:03:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25D016A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C45A43FCB for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: nInvmHbWAIv7Qc69W2g0/g 1069642986 Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (dialup-67.74.79.195.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [67.74.79.195]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F16E43E672; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:03:05 -0500 (EST) To: questions@freebsd.org, "Paulo Roberto" References: <20031123122103.74672.qmail@web14917.mail.yahoo.com> <44ad6mzo65.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:03:12 -0500 From: Jud Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <44ad6mzo65.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.30 (Win32, build 3363) Subject: Re: booting freebsd and openbsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:03:11 -0000 On 23 Nov 2003 17:59:46 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Paulo Roberto writes: > >> I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot >> freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but >> does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra >> parameter? > > Funny, I didn't think that should be a problem. > What partition type is OpenBSD creating? Another possibility: If you have FreeBSD and OpenBSD on separate disks, the FreeBSD bootloader must be installed on both drives. Jud