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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD Systems on a Single Disk
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>> Only booting from the first FreeBSD partition (slice) is supported.
>> The second one can be booted from by making it the first, e.g.,
>
>Even simpler: you can install OS-BS bootloader (from /tools), which is
>much more configurable than boot-easy. 

The lack of support has nothing to do with the master boot loader.
The FreeBSD boot loader only supports booting from the first FreeBSD
slice (on any disk that can be accessed by the BIOS).

Bruce