On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:35:27 -0500 "Josh Grosse" <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote:
> Yes it is possible, but not in the way you outline. A > single disk can only have one disklabel, regardless of > the number of MBR partitions... and only a single, A6 MBR > partition should be configured. Is this really true? As I understand the disklabel will be stored in the partition boot record? I just have to make sure the kernel selects the right disklabel. I assume OpenBSD automatically selects the one from the active partition? Why only a single A6 partition? > > You can have multiple systems installed in different > disklabel partitions, however. e.g. You could install > -current into, for example, wd0p. Then, at the boot> > prompt, just do something like "boot hd0p"/bsd -a", and > respond with "wd0p" as your root kernel. Ok, that's what I would have done with linux. But on BSD this violates against the "a is root" rule. Will this cause trouble? If not the rest should be easy. > > Note that the bsd.rd installation script will reformat > and use the "a" partition as the root partition, and this > is outside of operator control. This will be a problem. > You must either relabel partitions with disklabel(8) or > modify the scripts. (Note also that relabelling mounted > on a running system is a very bad idea. Do it when > running bsd.rd, so that root partitions are unmounted, if > you choose this method.) > > The -easiest- way to multiboot two OpenBSD systems is to > use a second disk (even a USB stick). that's surely true, but I have neither one handy. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
