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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:36:21 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199506260636.IAA21974@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <13565.804125202@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 01:06:42 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I'm curious why dual boot is a "no and possibly never"? 

> Just the amount of work involved is all.  You can't have 2 FreeBSD
> slices on a disk and boot from the second one as the boot code is too
> stupid to understand that you might want to boot from something other
> than the first one it finds.

Except for the space constraints, it should be possible to extent the
boot syntax from:

	driver(unit,part)/filename

to

	driver(unit,[slice,]part)/filename

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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