Subject: Re: multiple netbsd slices on the same HD
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/18/2000 15:39:28
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:25:05AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> What about the boot _selector_ (fdisk -B)? Why would it care what's in
> the not-chosen MBR slices?

It will load the secondary boot loader, which will load the kernel
from the first slice, as this one *does* care.
(and even if it didn't the loaded kernel would use the first slice
anyway).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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