From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 14:01:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4BB37B404 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79CA043FBD for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31163 invoked by uid 65534); 25 Apr 2003 21:01:23 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp013-rz3) with SMTP; 25 Apr 2003 23:01:23 +0200 From: Adam To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <200304252007.h3PK7OeH019858@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200304252007.h3PK7OeH019858@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i" Organization: Message-Id: <1051304482.76975.33.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 25 Apr 2003 17:01:22 -0400 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems setting up dual-boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:01:27 -0000 --=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 16:07, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Root needs to be the 'a' partition (maybe not absolutely, but everything > seems to assume it is). =20 Yeah, this is the conclusion I'm arriving at as well. I think I'm going to try reinstalling FreeBSD and completely redo the partitions. > Sounds like you need to study the man pages for FreeBSD's fdisk and > disklabel carefully along with the handbook. No doubt .. I've been through page after page of tutorials on how to do this .. The problem is that the terminology is a bit foreign to me, so I continuously get sidetracked just trying to figure out what the words mean.=20 In your experience, is it OK to have dual-boot set up across different physical disks? LILO was perfectly happy with this setup, but I really wasn't happy with Linux. Maybe the FreeBSD boot manager simply does not like switching between disks?=20 --=20 Adam --=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+qaIiu3o4GBMSDL4RAsHyAJoDpmKjPIDffbRkWvJKaCw3XH4H8gCfeHIx hFCT3xy44KmVb4tCxzrvLBA= =0S6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i--