From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jun 4 17:03:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE24B82248 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2017 17:03:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@tysdomain.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x22d.google.com (mail-qt0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C7667CBF1 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2017 17:03:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@tysdomain.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id u19so2310822qta.3 for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 10:03:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tysdomain-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=reply-to:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-language; bh=0qdgoup3blPQpeZZVoak0HhaaxvfntEkX2N6dKRR5KI=; b=pcPKNKB43GD4O8LkHhsPf93RiU/j5thtxgPGzcuVHOYo8/2PRttn8PbN9nSxKBclGW PL6Yn3u4xNSD5/HZg4K+r9qBToOMBKqO3fAwqfDfdGRTokIi5JGTJjn/w734fSRUf3I3 NaCjF0aucgiwLOKH44ijF8MDYKVBu1uDF3lFAoLPSx3PO+8Y5HX0QsjUlxS7QGNsTiCP 28zMSxhi5NwPl89Ski2UlLflYNs0KekmCXklWA6hWvQbopsX/oJzmGZ20VyC8oIqQRaI /wqOtV22kI+w9dejmpRgd3GqzC5P1zsqaS2luhXsFsCer7hb4f9W+x6Luv4V4aiy+Oq9 Wgqg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:to:from:subject:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-language; bh=0qdgoup3blPQpeZZVoak0HhaaxvfntEkX2N6dKRR5KI=; b=Tls5ZX6SzGcPzp8sdpjLdDQnmQNR5/i8uCXdWaCQGobfUGskwfsRwpAiQkboZEB+VR GYz6bpDBdRtZTLjSRqbQvvmjqzT7NHULT3FbuH0xvJ+vLIxz6SeuoUX+iBA4i5+NF+h8 /8CqRXEb2EOW227Tf8OP+e8mMjM9qAiDd2kLcSMy0zpxLxfIZL31uMpaCsz51KHRF1FM s6yWGzHwEvwjBXKxQA/rqUzq5EFiyqTNmnGqiywjvCLXU2+mHqNVcTmCCmRYLDN8deHA kf1zckWOZKwDzeTZ/kynpFthD+Sf/7BDOFuqpE9LdElHpCff+9kmO5CqDKoEgrvR3Rqv ecZg== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcAzssTxzqI1T6hHqja5VwA7MjYv87MxMPguZZbR+ORHnQ9Pn96o bvz3Hk46aaxsMV2WaLpvGA== X-Received: by 10.55.186.132 with SMTP id k126mr20486979qkf.243.1496595783321; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 10:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.88.101] (c-24-91-139-206.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [24.91.139.206]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q7sm3692730qta.15.2017.06.04.10.03.02 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 04 Jun 2017 10:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: tyler@tysdomain.com To: FreeBSD Questions From: "Littlefield, Tyler" Subject: various questions about booting and recovery Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 13:02:59 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:03:04 -0000 All: I've got a few questions. I'd like to update my main server and my server here at home. They're both running Freebsd 10.3 and I want to push them to 11. Really I'd like to rebuild the kernel and world but that's a bit away. My biggest problem is that I always end up somehow breaking things and then need to get eyeballs (I'm totally blind) to help me recover/reinstall. Both systems are using zfs. I've tried to figure out the multiboot environment, but not having much luck. I can force my systme to reboot, but I'm curious if there's an easy way to set up multiboot environments so I can boot configurations to test. If so, are there some clear instructions somewhere on how to do so? Finally, can I have it boot to an environment once and if it reboots swap back to the old one? Thanks, -- Take Care, Tyler Littlefield Tyler Littlefield Consulting: website development and business solutions. My personal site My Linkedin @Sorressean on Twitter