use boot disks?

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Adam Laurie wrote:

> 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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