Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 16:57:24 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> Cc: "FreeBSD current" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Booting 3.0-RELEASE in a non-standard setup Message-ID: <10151.912646644@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 11:39:10 %2B1100." <000d01be1e55$577177a0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au>
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> My setp...2 EIDE drives, wd0 and wd2. wd0 is Windows only. wd2 > has 4 partitions, 1 is FreeBSD 2.2.8, 2 was empty, 3 and 4 are > linux and linux swap. What happened to wd1? :-) > What I did...Booted from the CD and selected slice 2 (which > was empty) to install to. Using the disk label editor I created Which won't work. The FreeBSD boot loader, at least last I checked, is too stupid to know that there might be more than one FreeBSD slice on the disk and it just stops at the first one it finds. If you want to run different versions of FreeBSD on the same box, they at least need to reside on physically different drives. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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