From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 12:31:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCE2152AA for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id PAA13491 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:40:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902282040.PAA13491@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Multiple FreeBSDs on One Disk To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:40:09 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IIRC, BootEasy has trouble with multiple FreeBSD slices. That is, it only sees the first FreeBSD slice, and since there is no way to specifcy a slice at the 'boot:' prompt, you are kinda stuck. I would like to clobber my Win98 slice with 3.1 to give it a try. My other partition is FreeBSD 2.2.7. This presents two problems, the one mentioned above, and second, 3.1 can't be booted by the old bootstrapper due to the a.out to ELF move. Can the new 3.1 boot handle this? i.e. Will it allow me to choose or specify which FreeBSD partition to choose from and if it does, can it actually boot both? If it can't, what are some work arounds? Could I have one boot from HD and one from floppy (this would work if one bootstrapper could see both slices and some how allow me to pick one of them)? I only have a single IDE HD, and no other read-write, bootable devices. I could not find this in the FAQ, Handbook, or 3.1 release notes. Mail archive searches return a message that the archives are not available at the moment... what's that about? I follow -questions fairly closely and have seen this mentioned but cannot for the life of me remember the solution (or verification there is none). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message