From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 15:18:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17939 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 15:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ginseng.indigo.ie (ts02-05.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17935 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 15:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 1367 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jan 1998 23:22:40 -0000 Message-ID: <19980101232240.1366.qmail@ginseng.indigo.ie> From: "Niall Smart" Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 23:22:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" "Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk" (Jan 1, 2:51pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Jan 1, 2:51pm, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk > > I understand that the BSD_COMPAT flag is set for the first FreeBSD fdisk > > partition. Is that correct? Is there anyway to install -current and > > -stable on the same disk, apart from using fdisk to hide one from the > > other in between reboots? > > Nope. The boot code will find and boot from the first 0xa5 type > partition found. Crap :( Is this (silly) limitation restricted to the boot code only or do you know if it has been made in many places? Niall