Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:08:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: Andreas Terzis <terzis@CS.UCLA.EDU>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD partitions on the same (SCSI) disk Message-ID: <344BD653.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971017105635.5664B-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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Nadav Eiron wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Andreas Terzis wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I have the following problem: I used to have NT and FreeBSD (2.1.6R) on > > the same box. I removed NT and put FreeBSD 2.2.2R on the first partition > > in the place of NT. > > The problem is that right now Ican get, via the boot mananger, only to > > the 2.2.2R partition and not to the 2.1.6. > > Any solutions? > > Put them on different disks :-(. FreeBSD can only boot from a single > partition on a disk (it always uses the first partition it finds). > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andreas Terzis > > > Nadav put the root for the 2.1.6 stuff in a partition in the first slice as well, sd(0,a)/kernel would be 2.2.2 sd(0,g)/kernel would be 2.1.6 you can then re-user the old 2.1.6 root partition as /tmp or something..
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