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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:59:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980318205906.4476G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <350EF1B5.FB45983@dal.net>

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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Studded wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> 	Isn't this one of the things that the new slice code is supposed to
> fix?

I would have no idea, I don't watch -stable.  AFAIK the bootblocks don't
have a *way* of specifying exactly which slice you want.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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