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Date:      Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:03:12 -0500
From:      Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, "Paulo Roberto" <nirv199@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: booting freebsd and openbsd
Message-ID:  <opry4f3mg80cf2rk@mail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <44ad6mzo65.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20031123122103.74672.qmail@web14917.mail.yahoo.com> <44ad6mzo65.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On 23 Nov 2003 17:59:46 -0500, Lowell Gilbert  
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot
>> freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but
>> does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra
>> parameter?
>
> Funny, I didn't think that should be a problem.
> What partition type is OpenBSD creating?

Another possibility: If you have FreeBSD and OpenBSD on separate disks,  
the FreeBSD bootloader must be installed on both drives.

Jud



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