Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Gregory G. Losik" <gregor@cc.gatech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317130912.994q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980317124910.2605A-100000@felix.cc.gatech.edu>
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Gregory G. Losik wrote: > Hey, > > Wonder if someone would clarify why I can't dual boot two different > versions of fbsd located in wd0s2(2.2.2) and wd0s4(2.2.5)? Our boot blocks are pretty dumb; it searches for the first slice with the correct type and boots it. You won't be able to boot wd0s4 unless you disable wd0s2 first. > Related to this, even if I boot 2.2.5 on wd0s4, can I mount /usr fs > located in wd0s2c under some name(ie /usr1) only to get the files from > there? It would be soooo nice. You can mount the filesystems fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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