From owner-freebsd-small Sun Feb 18 9:49:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AEB37B4EC for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:49:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1IHnZi27695; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200102181749.f1IHnZi27695@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: Booting In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010218202511.02d31c30@mail.thetac.com> from Gary Barnden at "Feb 18, 2001 8:25:16 pm" To: g.barnden@braenet.com.au (Gary Barnden) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:49:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello All > > Problem: > > It is near impossible to have two FreeBSD partitions on a single HDD and > boot between them ( i say this from the point of view that it is impossible > to maintain this configuration when doing an upgrade on the Second FBSD > Partition). So i was wondering if anyone out there has booted PicoBSD from > anyting other than a FreeBSD partition ie DOS, ext2fs etc I am a bit unclear on why you mention picobsd because it seems to me that you would have similar problems. At any rate, with the recent commits that i made to the PicoBSD code in RELENG_4, the kernel is fully self-contained -- it includes the full file system image that you need. So what you could do is just load (from the bootloader) your /kernel.picobsd instead of your standard kernel, and you should have what you need. cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message