Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:35:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, abial@korin.warman.org.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sherwink@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Multiple FreeBSD Systems on a Single Disk Message-ID: <199707300035.RAA03727@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707290502.PAA18490@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 29, 97 03:02:45 pm
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> >And should be fixed (I've mentioned this before) to boot from the > >first ACTIVE (flag 0x80) FreeBSD slice. Should be a trival amount > > That would mainly break certain configurations. The active flag > should only be set for one partition, so you shouldn't have any active > FreeBSD partitions if you have an active DOS partition. The boot managers (at least the one he's been pushing) set the active partition to the one selected for boot. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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