From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 10:59:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E334914D36 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:59:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA48344 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:59:06 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <37A6CA97.1F0DA32F@cdsec.com> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:59:11 -0400 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:24 PM -0400 8/3/99, i (Garance A Drosihn) wrote: >So, my guess is that my primary problem is that I have only a >vague idea of what I'm doing... Where is a good point to start >looking for a better idea? I tried searching the web site for >"multi-boot", but that didn't turn up much. I have a number >of questions from doing this: > 1. why does the install turn my HD unbootable? (invalid > partition table). I didn't ask it to re-fdisk anything, > and I didn't ask for it to change my boot loader. > 2. I have the BIOS option on so I can boot off larger > hard disks, and indeed it seems I can boot to the > first three partitions. Why can't I get to that final > partition? > 3. Can I get it so that booting off the third partition > will smoothly boot into 3.2-stable? I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so I want to have a better idea of what I'm doing before I take another stab at this, to minimize the number of reinstalls that I wind up doing. I should also mention that while I do have a second 4-gig scsi disk to use, it isn't actually installed yet. Also, I did intend to have a freebsd 4-current system as part of this multi-boot mix. I don't think I mentioned that last time. Perhaps I should create one fdisk-style partition per hard disk, and put all freebsd-related slices (for all the different freebsd installs) into that one partition? Would that make things go smoother? (particularly if I put all the boot-related slices at the start of that fdisk-style partition) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message