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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:57:09 -0800
From:      Studded <Studded@dal.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew)
Message-ID:  <350EF1B5.FB45983@dal.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317130912.994q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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Doug White wrote:
> 
> 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.

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

Doug

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