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From: hugh@ecotone.toad.com (Hugh Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: A problem with Booteasy on a three OS notebook drive
Date: 09 Jun 1996 23:50:29 -0700
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  I have a NEC notebook with a single hard drive, I have three
'slices' on it, F1 is WinDross-95, F2 was a spare, F3 is FreeBSD 2.1R
where I do most of my work.
  I decided to upgrade to the early May SNAP and noticed that much of
it was missing so I took the safe route and installed it on F2 to be
safe (nothing to wipe out...).
  I got it working but decided that I wanted to stick with the 2.1R
system and so rebooted and asked Booteasy for F3, yet it gave me F2
(the May SNAP).  Now both F2 and F3 yeild F2 while F1 still gives me
the correct F1.
  I installed what seems to be Booteasy-1.7 but that changed nothing,
and the slice table looks good, so me thinks that booteasy-1.[47] has
problems.
  If anyone knows the botom line, a better package or the quick fix
email me, else I am going to have to slug it out with the code.

		||ugh Daniel
		General Systems Consultant
		hugh@toad.com