From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 18:44:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA29653 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:44:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ginseng.indigo.ie (ts01-06.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA29637 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 18:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 18746 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jan 1998 02:40:02 -0000 Message-ID: <19980102024002.18745.qmail@ginseng.indigo.ie> From: "Niall Smart" Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 02:40:02 +0000 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Jan 2, 11:21am, Mike Smith wrote: } Subject: Re: Installing -current and -stable on the same disk > > Crap :( Is this (silly) limitation restricted to the boot code only > > or do you know if it has been made in many places? > > How else would you propose to get around it? Note that this limitation > applies to most operating systems on the PC. Modify the internal console thingy so that you can specify the fdisk partition to boot from, so if you had current on fdisk partition 1 and stable on fdisk partition 2: 0:wd(0,1,a) => boots current 0:wd(0,2,a) => boots stable Isn't this possible? I'm pretty sure Linux can do it. Niall