From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 09:29:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04057 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inner.net (avarice.inner.net [199.33.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04050 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmetz@inner.net) Received: from inner.net (cmetz.cstone.net [205.197.102.217]) by inner.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06320 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:24:07 GMT Message-Id: <199810201624.QAA06320@inner.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD and NetBSD coexistence? X-Copyright: Copyright 1998, Craig Metz, All Rights Reserved. X-Reposting: With explicit permission only Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:27:37 -0300 From: Craig Metz Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to set up a box dual-boot (actually quad, but anyway) with NetBSD and FreeBSD. The problem is that they both use the same FDISK partition ID, and both seem to assume that the first partition with type A5 is theirs. FreeBSD gets bonus points for at least allowing one to install it on the second partition with type A5; NetBSD always seems to claim the first one for itself. So I have NetBSD on my second FDISK partition and FreeBSD on my third. The problem I'm now running into is that the FreeBSD boot loader defaults to looking at the NetBSD partition and I can't figure out how to get it to instead look at the FreeBSD partition. The kernel path syntax as I understand it doesn't really have a way of representing the FDISK partition number. Has anyone gotten a configuration like this to work, and what do you need to be done to untangle these? (I'm seriously toying with just twiddling the boot loader and kernel to use a different partition type) -Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message