From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 19:27:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14161 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from musca.digicon-brs.com.au (musca.digicon-brs.com.au [140.253.221.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14150 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Steve_Hearn@digicon-brs.com.au) Received: from brisbane.digicon-brs.com.au (brisbane.digicon-brs.com.au [140.253.221.31]) by musca.digicon-brs.com.au (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA04664 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:23:31 +1000 (EST) Received: by brisbane.digicon-brs.com.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id CA25653A.00078DB9 ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:22:30 +1100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: VES From: "Steve Hearn" To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:22:26 +1100 Subject: Multiple Bootable FreeBSD Partitions on one disk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is is possible to have more than one bootable FreeBSD partition on a single hard drive? As reported some time back we have experienced quite a number of cases of 'vanishing' BSD partitions over the past 6 months - this problem as yet unresolved. In all cases I've noticed that when there was also a DOS partition on the disk, that was still OK. Anyway I was thinking of trying to set up basically a mirrored system - so that in the event of a failure I could get the workstation back up on the 'reserve' partition temporarily. (This would keep the user happy until we could get access to fix the corrupt partition.) I did set up such a beast (ensuring both the root directories were in first 500MB etc) but although booteasy 'sees' the F1 and F2 options it wont boot from the latter. Just wondering if this should be technically possible or not. Thanks Steve Hearn Digicon Geophysical BRISBANE AUSTRALIA