Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:30:00 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk Message-ID: <20091016013000.2b35e4ad.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4AD7AB5C.2040308@videotron.ca> References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> <4AD74A14.9010403@videotron.ca> <20091015200626.c1dee87b.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AD76D10.2040408@videotron.ca> <20091015210856.b8afc17d.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AD7AB5C.2040308@videotron.ca>
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:08:12 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > Gag is really about the simplest you can find... it is installed on the > main drive that is selected by bios and it works from there. I have > found it to be quite safe and reliable. Only difficulty is sometimes to > figure ;out what dist it is booting from but that can be worked out be > trial and error. I've tried the rest, this is the best KISS. The last time I did dual boot is long ago; I used FreeBSD's boot manager for this, it worked well, so there was no need for something else to try. :-) > the boot... it could be seen in the onscreen mesages... and then the > boot oviously failed... Seems that the first boot stage finds ad12 BEFORE ad4, which is quite strange... or is the setting hardcoded somewhere in the boot loader? > I noticed that but have not yet had the opportunity to look into it. That would be a good point to start diagnostics. The most obvious is often such a point... > The fstab did cure the problem and showed some of the pitfalls one can > encounter. After fixing the fstab, the boot did not complete because the > fstab from the source disk had anextra partition (/backups) which were > not present in the original ad4 disk. But that was easiily fixed by > simply removing the fstab entry for that /backups partition. Now it > works fine. Excellent! And you have learned something new. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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