From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 16:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.xs4all.nl (smtp7.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25B537B405 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp7.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA27572; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:13:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6KND3E12151; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:13:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:13:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <20010721011303.A12137@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com>; from thierry@herbelot.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:32:48PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:32:48PM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. > > > > What I did is create > > ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable > > ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for -current > > ad0s3 -> roughly 14G holds tmp,var,usr,usr/obj for -stable > > ad0s4 -> ditto for -current > > > > My recollection is that as long as you keep the root partitions <2 (or 8) GB > > it should be bootable. Hence this somewhat strange slicing. > > > > Thing is, 4.3R refuses to install it's root on ad0s2 (4.3 because I want > > to go current from there). > > > > I'm probably missing something obvious here? > > here's what I have on my (just -Stable for the moment) workstation : > multi# fdisk ad4 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=35390 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: ... > you may want to use a similar setup (with larger bootable partitions : > my setup was initially one only 2G partition, but I cut it this way, > with a shared swap to be able to dual-boot) But does your system boot from the 'second' FreeBSD installation? > PS : I also had problems with a 40G disk on my oldish P-II/266 : it > would not boot from the large disk (I just added a spare 8G which I boot > from) Hmmm. Wilko [who remembers why all his other systems are SCSI.. ] -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte "Youth is not a time in life, it is a state of mind" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message