Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 05:28:32 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, torfinn.ingolfsen@oslo.online.no Subject: Re: Two FreeBSDs on same disk, booting secondary slice? Message-ID: <200111111328.fABDSWp02311@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <3BEE8243.1115.97AA66@localhost>
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>From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <torfinn.ingolfsen@oslo.online.no> >Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:50:59 +0100 >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). OK; I've been doing something along these lines on my laptop (and ubsequently, on my build machine). See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/laptop.html (a little more than halfway down the page) for my deathless prose on the topic. >The problem is, when FreeBSD boots, it automatically takes the >first FreeBSD slice and boots from that. That has not been my experience. >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. I've never needed to do that, as far as I can tell -- and I've been using this setup to build & boot -STABLE & -CURRENT daily for quite a while. Granted, I've only been running (different versions of) FreeBSD, so that may have some bearing on what I'm seeing. And I'm using the FreeBSD-default boot loader. >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. OK; I'll sympathize, but these are the only 2 salient differences I can think of. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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