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Subject: Re: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD partitions?
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From: "Stephen Hocking" <shocking@houston.rr.com>
> I'm looking at creating multiple versions of FreeBSD on the one disk - sharing
> perhaps one or two filesystems, but with totally separate /, /usr and /var.
> Does anyone have a quick way to do this from a clean install? I've done this
> under a number of OS's, but can't think how to do it with FreeBSD.

FreeBSD itsell come with a selector in the bootsectors.
Nothing really fancy, but it works.

Not shure if the default is now to use LARGE disks, otherwise readup on boot0cfg
and the -o packet option.

My system also has w2K and WinXP/amd64, and I wanted a serial bootselector.
So I used Grub for this. It is in the ports.

--WjW