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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!rees From: rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI and Window NT in a single SCSI disk! Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:49:03 EST Organization: University of Michigan CITI Lines: 12 Message-ID: <745f21ae.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960317011137.17701B-100000@alcor.usc.edu> <4iklpc$fs@anorak.coverform.lan> <4infk8$6q8@midway.evtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: luckey.citi.umich.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15720 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2504 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2708 In article <4infk8$6q8@midway.evtech.com>, travis@evtech.com (Travis Hassloch x231) writes: HOWEVER: you will not be able to put NetBSD and FreeBSD on the same disk, as they use the same system ID in the partition table, and AFAIK this is a problem with the boot code. How about DG/Linux :) :) Is this true? I thought NetBSD and FreeBSD looked for a partition with the active flag true and the sys ID set to a5. If you use the "set active partition" option to os-bs, you should be able to boot either one, right? I think I even tried this once and got it to work, but that might be my imagination.