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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:11:29 -0500
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: HEADS UP! (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c)
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Greg Lehey:
 |On Sun,  8 March 1998 at  7:18:50 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
 |>>   Construct the minor number for the root device taking into account the
 |>>   slice number passed in by the bootblocks.  This means the kernel will
 |>>   not use the compatability slice to obtain the root filesystem when
 |>>   booting from a sliced disk.
...
 |> /dev/xd0s2a	/	ufs	...
 |> /dev/xd0s2e	/usr	ufs	...
 |>
 |> Note that the root filesystem is now consistent with the others.  If
 |> you are using a 'dedicated' disk, you will have entries like

Great!  Been looking forward to someday putting multiple FreeBSD versions
on the same disk for a good while.

With this batch of changes, can multiple FreeBSD versions now be installed
pretty effortlessly to separate slices on the same disk, or are there other
pieces out there (which depend on the 1st BSD root partition) that will need
touched first?

Thanks,

Randall

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