From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 12 08:13:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07104 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06918 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA20904; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:11:34 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA09397; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:10:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA29009; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:53:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08969; Tue, 12 Jan 99 17:00:02 +0100 Message-Id: <369B7291.C587E793@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:04:33 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Roshchin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to install two FreeBSD releases a single disc? (fwd) References: <199901121545.JAA18657@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor Roshchin wrote: > > I haven't heard from Mike, so I decided to post this question back > to -stable list. > > Any help ? > > Thanks! > > Igor > > ----- Forwarded message from Igor Roshchin ----- > > On 7 December 1998, Mike Smith proclaimed: > > > I like to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 (2.2.8) and 3.0 on the same disc. > > > Because the FreeBSD boot loader looks for the first compatibility slice, it > > 's > > > only possible to boot from the first installed release (first slice). > > > > Install the 'new' bootstrap from 3.0 on both the 2.2 and 3.0 slices. > > See the 'disklabel' manpage; the new bootstrap lives in the files > > /boot/boot1 and /boot/boot2 on the 3.0 install's root filesystem. Hello, I have asked approx. the same question one month ago (and I don't have the messages) There were two interesting answers (one was from Gerg Lehey) Look in the archives of -questions TfH > > Hello, Mike, > > About a month ago you wrote the above mentioned message. > > I could not get it loading from the second slice of the same disk > in the configuration where two different versions of FreeBSD reside on > one hard drive on different slices. > > I think I might be missing something. > > Let me also ask you what you meant by talking about having the bootstrap > "on both slices". > Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the bootstrap is installed > on a disk, and not per slice. > > Another question - how do you specify in the /etc/boot.config - > which slice to boot up from ? > > Thanks, > > Igor > > ----- End of forwarded message from Igor Roshchin ----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message