From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 23:30:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A79106566B for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:30:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EAC8FC16 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-71-245.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.71.245]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C592A3C9A1; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n9FNU0NM003027; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:30:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:30:00 +0200 From: Polytropon To: PJ 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> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:30:02 -0000 On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:08:12 -0400, PJ 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, ...