Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:38:05 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <3B59234D.CAADC791@herbelot.com> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, 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 > > You are getting bit by the "root" aliasing code (IIRC this is the right > way to describe the problem). This makes it impossible to install > multiple copies of FreeBSD on a single disk w/o hacking around the > system. :-( I do not understand what this problem is : - I've got one system with two bootable FreeBSD "BIOS" partitions (the one I already sent info about (these are two -Stable versions) and both versions have been installed via /stand/sysinstall - Another system runs with two FreeBSD "BIOS" partitions (used to switch between 3-Stable and 4-Stable) the boot0 boot selector is used to switch between releases - a third (a notebook) has one FreeBSD "BIOS" partition and used to be shared between 4-Stable and -Current (using all 8 FreeBSD partitions in the slice and using the loader to select ad0s4a or ad0s4e for root partition) - In this case, /stand/sysinstall was unable to create all 8 FreeBSD partitions : I had to first install FreeBSD on ad0s3, cut 8 partitions in ad0s4, then reinstall in ad0s4. [SNIP] -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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