Subject: multiple OS boot
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/07/1998 16:56:18
Hi,

I'm having trouble getting my multiple OS setup to work. Here's what
I've got:

Part 1: FreeBSD
Part 2: linux
Part 3: NetBSD
Part 4: OpenBSD

Here is the history:

I installed NetBSD first, and it worked fine. I then install OpenBSD and
could then boot either NetBSD or OpenBSD by setting the active
partition. I then installed FreeBSD, and could boot either FreeBSD or
OpenBSD by using the FreeBSD default multi-boot manager. However, even
though NetBSD was listed at boot time, if I tried to boot from it I
always got FreeBSD coming up instead. I then installed Linux and the
Lilo boot manager, and same thing happens - I can now boot from anything
except NetBSD which still comes up as FreeBSD even though it's listed as
a seperate boot. I suspect this is related to the fact that both NetBSD
and FreeBSD have a sysid of 165 in the partition table, but don't see
how I can get around it... 

Any ideas?

cheers,
Adam
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