From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 3:11:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3672637B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.246.213.63.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.213.63] helo=sparky) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16vbYD-0007Xp-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:11:34 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, charon@seektruth.org Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:10:58 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <200204110228.g3B2Slsw006163@midway.uchicago.edu> Message-Id: Subject: Re: FreeBSD's boot manager MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.02 build 1076 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 4/10/2002 10:28:46 PM, David Syphers wrote: [snip] >I now run just FreeBSD -stable, but I wanted to >install -current. I had about 4GB unused at the beginning of my disk, so I >thought I'd put -current there. I installed -current and FreeBSD's boot >manager. Rebooting, it gave me the options of F1 (FreeBSD) and F2 (FreeBSD) >(is there any way of changing these names to something useful?). F1 >(-current) boot fine, but F2 just beeped at me and did nothing. [snip] Regarding booting from -CURRENT and -STABLE on the same machine, that was discussed on this list not long ago (a couple of months, perhaps?), so Google is your friend. Go to Google Groups and search mailing.freebsd.questions. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message