From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 11 4:54:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail48.fg.online.no (mail48-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6D937B41B for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 04:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from osltoringol-hpc (ti211310a011-0248.dialup.online.no [130.67.240.248]) by mail48.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10165 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:54:40 +0100 (MET) From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Two FreeBSDs on same disk, booting secondary slice? Message-ID: <3BEE8243.1115.97AA66@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've tried out this question in the newsgroups with no answer, maybe some of you will know the answer. My work laptop (an IBM ThinkPad X20) has serveral OS'es installed. I have Win2K, Mandrake Linux and FreeBSD. For various reasons, I wish to have 2 FreeBSD installations on this disk. FreeBSD 4.3 is installed on slice 3 (ad0s3), and FreeBSD 4.4 is installed on slice 4 (ad0s4). (This will have FreeBSD-current on it later, for testing purposes). The problem is, when FreeBSD boots, it automatically takes the first FreeBSD slice and boots from that. How do I make the boot process automatically boot from the slice I've choosen in the boot menu? if I interrupt the boot process, I can always set curredev, unload and load the kernel, but that isn't good enough. For info, I'm using LILO as the boot loader, and I specify the correct partition ("slice") there, slice 3 is hda3 and slice 4 is hda4. But, when the FreeBSD boot loader starts, it still boots the first FreeBSD slice. For various reasons, I do not wish to use booteasy, if I can avoid it. I've read all I can about /boot/loader.conf etc., but I can't seem to get this to work. Pointers to relevant info? -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message