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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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Subject: use of 386bsd partition tag makes multi-os boot harder
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>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:


