Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:39:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ev Batey <efb@cotdazr.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What IF, never learned, 205 disk on New 226+ host
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201638360.16885-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35B25B38.956C7175@cotdazr.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Ev Batey wrote:

> What should I expect for a result if I disconnected my F.Bsd_205 (root)
> disk .. installed a new 2-4Gb disk and brought up 226+, then remounted
> (or tried to remount) my old root 205 disk to copy back partitions I
> want
> or even permanently reconnected /home..etc from OLD .. such as ..
> 
> Better yet .. is it possible to modify the native 205 boot disk selector
> to
> go to a new disk or to the old disk as the boot device . .  ???   Allow
> either to mount pieces of the others (slices) ??

The filesystem hasn't changed from 2.0.5 to current, so it should mount
fine.

You can't easily dual-boot between FreeBSDs on the same computer due to
the boot block design.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.00.9807201638360.16885-100000>