Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 19:28:31 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: itojun@iijlab.net Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual-booting: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD Message-ID: <20000528192831.A31988@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <1322.959532744@coconut.itojun.org>; from itojun@iijlab.net on Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:52:24AM %2B0900 References: <200005281634.KAA77382@harmony.village.org> <1322.959532744@coconut.itojun.org>
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On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:52:24 +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > > >I need to setup a machine that will boot FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. > >Assume I have an insane amount of disk space. What's the best way to > >accomplish this? Last time I tried it, the partition ID numbers were > >all the same, making this difficult if not impossible. > > just a starter: NetBSD 1.4 and recent use different FDISK partition > ID, so it is easy to share FreeBSD and NetBSD on a same disk using > separate FDISK partition. > OpenBSD uses 0xa6 and NetBSD 0xa9. With OpenBSD I had no problems, but the NetBSD-disklabel is also interpreted by FreeBSD resulting in some boot-messages: May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn 't entirely within the slice May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1: start 63, end 12048749, size 12048687 May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1d: start 0, end 35843669, size 35843670 This is due to the "d" slice of NetBSD, which contains the entire disk (not only the entire NetBSD partiton which is - like in FreeBSD the "c" slice). Anyway: apart from this I have a working multi-boot-system (FreeBSD-stable, FreeBSD-current, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, W*****s) on multiple disks. Regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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