On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:52:24 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I need to setup a machine that will boot FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> >Assume I have an insane amount of disk space. What's the best way to
> >accomplish this? Last time I tried it, the partition ID numbers were
> >all the same, making this difficult if not impossible.
>
> just a starter: NetBSD 1.4 and recent use different FDISK partition
> ID, so it is easy to share FreeBSD and NetBSD on a same disk using
> separate FDISK partition.
>
OpenBSD uses 0xa6 and NetBSD 0xa9. With OpenBSD I had no problems, but the
NetBSD-disklabel is also interpreted by FreeBSD resulting in some boot-messages:
May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn
't entirely within the slice
May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1: start 63, end 12048749, size 12048687
May 28 17:52:10 diehard /kernel: da1s1d: start 0, end 35843669, size 35843670
This is due to the "d" slice of NetBSD, which contains the entire disk (not
only the entire NetBSD partiton which is - like in FreeBSD the "c" slice).
Anyway: apart from this I have a working multi-boot-system (FreeBSD-stable,
FreeBSD-current, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, W*****s) on multiple disks.
Regards
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