Re: how do people play with different versions of DBSD on the same system?

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:25:40 -0700
> walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Bill Hacker wrote:
> > > Bob Bagwill wrote:
> > >
> > > > How are people playing with different versions of DBSD on the same 
> > > > system?
> > [...]
> >
> > > - partition and slice your media into many (preferably equal sized) 
> > > portions...
> > I like to point out at every opportunity that DragonFlyBSD is the
> > *only* BSD which can load the kernel from an extended DOS partition,
> > e.g. /dev/ad0s5a.  (This is because of our local modifications to
> > /boot/loader which (so far) have eluded the other BSD's.)

> I have NetBSD installed on an extended partition, so I kind of doubt
> your claim :P

Wow, that's Big News :o)  How did you accomplish it?  Has NetBSD
imported our loader patches?

(OpenBSD has been telling everyone (for many years) to 'f*-off-and-
submit-patches' if their bootloader sucks -- which it does, IMHO.)