From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 9: 0:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBBD15302 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01201; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 17:40:44 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 1198; Tue Aug 3 17:40:28 1999 Message-ID: <37A70D9C.B7D88F53@cdsec.com> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 17:41:17 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: Graham Wheeler , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD References: <37A6CDCF.FBFEFC1F@baker.ie> <37A6F353.C449445E@cdsec.com> <37A6F31E.E9F6F912@cdsec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > > This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > > default as appropriate. > > If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, > you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you > want. Boot selector programs like os-bs work with partitions, not disk slices. That's why I wanted separate partitions. At the moment I have os-bs installed but it will only get me as far as a BSD boot. I then have to quickly hit a key and enter: 0:wd(0,c)/kernel to boot 2.2.8 (3.2 will boot by default). I have only a couple of seconds to hit a key to get this right, and no way (that I know of) to change the default. So it works, but not like I'd like it to. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message