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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) 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: 22 Mar 1996 10:31:59 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4itviv$3n8@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960317011137.17701B-100000@alcor.usc.edu> <4iklpc$fs@anorak.coverform.lan> <4infk8$6q8@midway.evtech.com> <745f21ae.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15768 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2509 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2714 rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) 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. No the ``active partition'' flag is largely irrelevant. AFAIK, NetBSD can only handle the first (by fdisk table slot #) slice with 0xa5, FreeBSD can handle all of them (the so-called ``slice code''), but can only boot from the first one due to limitations in the bootstrap. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j