Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:13:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "A.J. Werner" <warp9@northlink.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multiple Root Partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329231311.23543X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980323164209.28714A-100000@prescott.northlink.com>
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, A.J. Werner wrote: > Question: Can FreeBSD 2.2.5 see multiple root partitions on different > drives? Should. > I have a 2 GB partition and a 4 GB partition. We want to use the 6GB > partition as a backup of the other two drives to be bootable and just > tar everything over. We figured out how to get around the boot up > problem through the SCSI bios, but now FreeBSD 2.2.5 cannot mount the > backup at all. We just want to be able to mount the partition so we can > tar the 2 & 4 over as a backup of the box. Here is what I have: > > partition mounted as > /dev/sd0a / > /dev/sd0s1f /usr > /dev/sd1s1e /usr/users > /dev/sd0s1e /var > > but when I go to mount the 6GB drive, it does not recognize it. I just > want to mount it as /backup and then have it bootable to be root incase > of failure. Any suggestions??? Could you be more specific? I don't understand the mapping between disks. I don't see any reference to /backup either. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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