From: Tobias Weingartner (weingarttepid.org)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 09:35:35 CDT

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On Monday, August 30, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
>
> If you know what you're doing, I know of no problems in having multiple
> OpenBSD {/,/usr,/var,...} partitions sharing a common /home. I've been
> running various OpenBSD systems this way since 2.7 or 2.8 with no problems.

The scheme you describe will break as soon as the boot code does not
go backwards compatible anymore. To really do it well, you'd need
to have 2 BIOS partitions with different starts, and two different
BSD disklabels, appropriately munged so that the correct things would
overlap, AND you'd need a boot selector that would hide the non-booting
openbsd partition upon boot of the booting openbsd partition.

--Toby.

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