From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 30 18:17:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C27D337B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45080 invoked by uid 100); 1 Dec 2000 02:17:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14887.2618.576975.938220@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:17:30 -0600 (CST) To: Warner Losh Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-user@netscum.dk, usenet@tdk.net Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <200012010145.SAA33402@harmony.village.org> References: <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011290706.eAT76E516121@newsmangler.inet.tele.dk> <200012010145.SAA33402@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh types: > In message <20001129122920.E88443@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: > : Except for stupidity in libdisk(I believe) and thus sysinstall, there is > : no, none, zero reason why one cannot have two installations of FreeBSD in > : two different slices on the same disk. > I've done make buildworld/installworld of both -current and -stable > onto one disk in the 3.x/4.0-current time frame. It took a lot of > tweaking, but I was able to boot off either one. I think that > booteasy didn't boot the second partition properly and I had to play > loader games. Sadly, the disk that had this on it one day started > thumping, turning it into a rather large paperweight... FWIW, my system running both -current and -stable off of one disk uses grub for booting, not booteasy.