From owner-freebsd-small Wed Nov 8 2:14: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.mail.uk.psi.net (relay1.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.105.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22AF37B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 02:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.plasmon.co.uk ([193.115.5.217]) by relay1.mail.uk.psi.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 13tSEq-0001by-00; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:13:52 +0000 Received: from virgo.software.plasmon ([193.115.4.42]) by mail.plasmon.co.uk (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.4 (830.2 3-23-1999)) with SMTP id 80256991.00385A19; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:15:30 +0000 Received: from mail by virgo.software.plasmon with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13tS93-000OhZ-00 (FreeBSD); Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:53 +0000 Received: from dsw by panic.software.plasmon with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13tSGj-0001uc-00 (Debian); Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:15:49 +0000 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:15:49 +0000 From: Dave Swegen To: Andrew Hannam Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving from 3.0 to 4.1 Message-ID: <20001108101549.A7000@software.plasmon> References: <20001107161532.F1927@software.plasmon> <003b01c04917$2c6d2600$842818cb@gc.deepsky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <003b01c04917$2c6d2600$842818cb@gc.deepsky.net>; from famzon@bigfoot.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:02:22AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:02:22AM +1000, Andrew Hannam wrote: > I think that the 3.0 wd devices and the new 4.X ad devices use the same > major and minor numbers - try creating both sets of devices and each version > of the OS should use the ones it thinks it needs to use. > I use this scheme to boot one hard-drive with both a 3.4 and a 4.1 kernel > (although there were a few more tricky things further on in the boot process > for this one). Thanks for the reply. So if I understand you correctly you have managed to boot a 4.x system using a 3.x kernel? The problem I encountered was that after the installing, the next boot the system would detect the ad devices, yet still try and boot / from the wd devices. Do you know exactly what it is that determines where to boot root from? Again, any help will be much appreciated. Cheers Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message