From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 28 10:29:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19574 for current-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19558 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA18261; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199707281729.KAA18261@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD Systems on a Single Disk In-Reply-To: <199707281528.BAA23105@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 29, 97 01:28:27 am" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: abial@korin.warman.org.pl, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sherwink@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> 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). And should be fixed (I've mentioned this before) to boot from the first ACTIVE (flag 0x80) FreeBSD slice. Should be a trival amount of code, and would do what everyone else does, even Microsoft got that part right. I had patches for this once, but they got lost when one of the major changes to the boot code happened. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD