Death By NetBSD

牛粥 bh at izb.knu.ac.kr
Sat Sep 5 22:21:30 UTC 2009


At Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:17:15 +0100,
Frank Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> Recently I installed NetBSD, then found FreeBSD wouldn't start. I had this 
> problem before and believed it was due to a bug in the NetBSD Boot Selector, 
> which I avoided installing. But this time it looked as if my FreeBSD 
> Partition got wiped completely.
> 
> Re-trying, it looked like NetBSD spotted the FreeBSD FFSv2 Partition and 
> decided to assign it a Mount Point of "/". This is listed if you look 
> closely under "NetBSD Disklabel Partitions... last chance to change". I 
> edited that Mount Point away and afterwards my (reinstalled) FreeBSD was 
> still present.
> 
> Hey, I'm glad I keep my Data on a separate Partition. Am I the only guy who 
> didn't know about this?

Welcome!

Personally i don't use dual booting. All operating system is in
primary master. Whenever special operating system is needed, i changed
that physicially hand by hand. It is safe for me, anyway ..;;   

Sincerely,

-- 
Byung-Hee HWANG
∑ WWW: http://izb.knu.ac.kr/~bh/


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