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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Booting frm sd0 as default?
Message-ID: <CvHFo7.AMu@tfs.com>
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References: <CvAuq8.It@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <miff.778295136@apanix.apana.org.au> <MICHAELV.94Aug31133216@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <CvGDB5.CD4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 03:14:31 GMT
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In article <CvGDB5.CD4@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
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>I want to have 3 different versions of BSD installed on the 3 drives,
>and choose between them from the OS-BS menu!
The easiest way of doing this is to have 3 partitions set up as roots
on the same BIOS partition, and use the BSD bootblock to select them.
(they each have different /etc/fstabs and can have their /usr
partitions spread among the other drives.. they can of course
all mount each other's roots as extra partitions so that if you
f*ck up one you can boot from another root part and fix it..
e.g.
sd(0,a)386bsd <==========(FreeBSD 1.1.5)
sd(0,e)netbsd <==========(NetBSD)
sd(0,f)kernel <==========(FreeBSD 2.0)
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