From muir@idiom.com Sat Jan 14 03:52:55 1995 Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [140.174.82.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA11470 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 03:52:49 -0800 Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id DAA20162; Sat, 14 Jan 1995 03:52:47 -0800 Message-Id: <199501141152.DAA20162@idiom.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 03:52:47 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff Reply-To: muir@idiom.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: use of 386bsd partition tag makes multi-os boot harder X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 118 >Category: misc >Synopsis: use of 386bsd partition tag makes multi-os boot harder >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: support >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 14 04:00:02 1995 >Closed-Date: Wed Feb 7 17:07:42 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: Wed Feb 7 17:08:08 PST 1996 >Originator: David Muir Sharnoff >Release: FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Idiom Consulting >Environment: >Description: At one point in my installation nightmare, I wanted to have FreeBSD and NetBSD installed on the same system. This turned out to be difficult because they both viewed the other's partition as part of their own space. I don't really understand all the issues yet, like: where does the BSD partition table live? Where does the BSD boot code live? I wasn't sure what catagory of thing this was. It's a bug if you can't install FreeBSD on the same system as NetBSD or 386BSD. It's just a support question if you can and I haven't figured out how yet. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: I may have a workaround -- using Linux's fdisk (it will do anything), change one of the BSD's slice types to something else while installing the other. I'm not sure if this will work though. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: pst State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 7 17:07:42 PST 1996 State-Changed-Why: The new install should DTRT in 2.1 and later. >Unformatted: