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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Type A5 partition/booting problems Date: 1 Mar 1996 19:43:31 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4h7k13$1ec@times.tfs.com> References: <4h74dv$12sc@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <4h74dv$12sc@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com>, Thomas Evans <evans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> wrote: >It appears FreeBSD requires its partition to be A5, how do I get it to boot >with another type, I have netbsd/freebsd on same HD using OS/2 Boot manager >to boot DOS/WARP/NETBSD/FREEBSD, but NETBSD looks to get confused when sees >2 A5 partitions. >Thx,Tom > here's what I did (a year or two ago,, might not still work) allocate a single A5 partition, but make 'a' the freebsd.root and 'e' the NetBSD root then select sd(0,[ae])/kernel to boot the correct system this might not work any more... as the bootblocks might not be compatible any more in which case, you may need to use the bootblocks off a floppy for the system in 'E' (insert floppy, type sd(0,e)/kernel (or whatever)) julian