Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:24:05 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: starting partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903081304550.10829-100000@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx>
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Hello there! I think this is not a question but an observation... I have asked you about a problem that occurres when you install FreeBSD in two different PARTITIONS of the same IDE disk. It seems to me that FreeBSD does not let you do that, I mean, you cannot have version 2.2.8 and version 3.0 in the same disk because the installation process destroys one of the disk labels. (I made a question about it some weeks ago, they answered me that I have made a mess with my disk labels, so I repeated the experiment and it happened again... I installed version 2.2.8 in partition 1, and version 3.0 in partition 2. Patition 2 became a mess). Some other Unix versions (the old ultrix and osf/1) require three "coordinates" for specifying the kernel's position: the disk number, the patition number, and the slice letter. So, if you want to start from disk 2, patition 1, slice a, the loader should have to receive: wd(2,1,a)kernel and not: wd(2,a)kernel But this is not possbile in FreeBSD loader. I am not saying only non-sense, aren't I? Could you do something for correct this? Thank you in advance. Eduardo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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