Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 11:39:10 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: "FreeBSD current" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Booting 3.0-RELEASE in a non-standard setup Message-ID: <000d01be1e55$577177a0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au>
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I am having some problems getting 3.0-CURRENT to boot.
My setp...2 EIDE drives, wd0 and wd2. wd0 is Windows only. wd2
has 4 partitions, 1 is FreeBSD 2.2.8, 2 was empty, 3 and 4 are
linux and linux swap.
What I did...Booted from the CD and selected slice 2 (which
was empty) to install to. Using the disk label editor I created
/ swap /usr /var in slice 2. I selected to not touch the MBR
when installing boot blocks. The installation process went OK
and I was able to see the files being installed in the right
place (I can boot 2.2.8 and mount the partitions on wd2s2).
What happens...Using the FreeBSD boot manager I press F5 to
switch to drive wd2, then F2 to boot the wd2s2 slice. However
it seems that the boot block in wd2s2 decided to load the 2.2.8
kernel from wd2s1 and I end up booting into 2.2.8 OK. So I decide
to try the new boot blocks, from 2.2.8 I mount the slice 2
partitions and using the 2.2.8 disklabel I go...
disklabel -B -b /mnt/boot/boot1 -s /mnt/boot/boot2 wd2s2
...which appears to update the right boot blocks. So now I use
the F5 F1 proceedure and I get a different boot manager with a
? key for command list (BTW help doesn't work because the
boot.help file got installed in the wrong place). However if I
let the auto boot timeout go the 3.0-RELEASE kernel starts but
dies with "unable to mount root wd1a" message. I tried typing
"boot kernel" from the boot manager with the same panic. Listing
the boot variables show 2 interesting variables (name escapes me
now) and both were set to disk2s2a (I think the a was there).
Question...After all that, does anybody have a 2xFreeBSD on
1xDisk config working? If so then how? I could probably do
some hackery with the partition table each time I want to boot
3.0 but it _should_ work without that.
Cheers.
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