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

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:12:23 -0700
walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chris Pressey wrote:
> > 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?

Support for installing to and booting off an extended partition is
pretty much "out of the box."  NetBSD seems to have added it in 2.x.

See http://man.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?mbr for some more details.

> Has NetBSD imported our loader patches?

I haven't researched NetBSD's CVS logs, but its boot infrastructure
seems different enough from DragonFly's to make me suspect not.

-Chris