From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 00:35:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BBE337 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:35:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james@mansionfamily.plus.com) Received: from avasout02.plus.net (avasout02.plus.net [212.159.14.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF26C24 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.barnhouse ([87.114.245.148]) by avasout02 with smtp id jCYM1k0053CpyCf01CYPcD; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:32:23 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=J7R0GnbS c=1 sm=1 a=hVBUcgCV8F7CJzaXmDyYag==:17 a=URPhxF5dMbEA:10 a=CaiL9ft7EWkA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=U7yQ1xoqLe8A:10 a=969-_8bOe-_axp8bvyMA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=5y8U40la7-JE1rcP:21 a=oU4JtHuXi0e4TcRX:21 a=hVBUcgCV8F7CJzaXmDyYag==:117 Received: from [192.168.0.96] (workstation.barnhouse [192.168.0.96]) by server.barnhouse (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BC168015D for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:40:16 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50E4D192.6060102@mansionfamily.plus.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:32:18 +0000 From: james User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: How to boot alternate installation? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:35:35 -0000 I have a system that boots 9.0+patches (claims to be 9.1-PRERELEASE but that's a stretch in this case) off an ssd on sata0 - I needed some mfi patches. Now that mfi is working, I have a raid1 pair on the mfi controller, and I've unpacked 9.1-RELEASE onto it using bsdinstall. Now, the crappy PERC5 and the AMI BIOS in my little AMD mobo don't really see eye to eye and I've had a lot of trouble coaxing it to boot from the RAID volume (the RAID card initialises late it seems). I'm happy to keep /boot on the SATA SSD for now. Is there a straightforward way to configure (the menus to) boot from 9.1? I'm happy enough to rename /boot on the SSD and copy over the contents from 9.1 (really the old 9.0+ system is there as insurance for the moment). Is the simplest mechanism to do that and override rootdev in loader.conf? It seems that there are a number of variables with "/boot/..." paths so its not so easy to switch between (say) /boot90 and /boot91.