From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 00:03:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28947 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:03:15 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA28924 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:03:11 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19056; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:03:08 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08433 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:03:07 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA21974 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:36:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506260636.IAA21974@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:36:21 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <13565.804125202@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 01:06:42 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 640 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)