Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 14:48:14 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD Message-ID: <37A6F31E.E9F6F912@baker.ie> References: <37A6CDCF.FBFEFC1F@baker.ie> <37A6F353.C449445E@cdsec.com>
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> This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line > at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer > partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the > default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you want. I don't know if this will work with booteasy the boot manager that comes with FreeBSD by default, but there is a nice boot manager called OS Select (tools/os-bs.exe in the FreeBSD distribution I think).. (the setup program is an MSDOS exe) It allows you to create a menu of OS's to boot from by selecting the relevant slices from the list it shows. It also allows you to set a default slice to boot aswell as a timeout counter. Whether it will work or not in your situation remains to be seen.. :) Regards, - Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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