Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:20:35 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009462835.9f5a5f@mired.org> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: hawkeyd@visi.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices on one HDD? Message-ID: <15396.38579.391079.879876@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112212335420.47613-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <15395.65527.65231.234995@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112212335420.47613-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> types: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > Then, will, bootEZ will see both FreeBSD partitions, and allow booting > > > > > either? This I haven't found an answer to. > My experience with booteasy is that it boots from the first / partition > it finds, and that some other boot manager (I use System Commander > for this) is necessary to distinguish them (set one bootable rather > than the other, I think). However, maybe I didn't install booteasy > again or whatever (or something has changed). I've heard that GRUB > will work in this situation, though. That sounds like the standard boot loader, not booteasy. Should I be wrong, Grub does work, and provides more control. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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