Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:10 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting current/stable on x86? Message-ID: <20020701201110.GE63216@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <15647.44810.349831.994344@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <15647.44810.349831.994344@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the
> same IDE disk? (and linux too.)
>
> When I tell lilo to boot "hde3", I get the -stable boot2 and
> /boot/loader from "hde2" (ad4s2a). I can then monkey around setting
> currdev and hints and unloading the -stable kernel & then boot
> -current, but I'd like to just pop right into -current on ad4s3a if I
> choose it.
>
> Is there a magic bullet? I'd like to continue using lilo so that I
> can choose what OS to load via a serial console..
what is the problem w/ the following entries ?
other=/dev/hde2
label=stable
alias=s
table=/dev/hde
loader=/boot/chain.b
other=/dev/hde3
label=current
alias=c
table=/dev/hde
loader=/boot/chain.b
what is the content of /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local
for each FreeBSD ?
did you tryed grub which is far better than lilo :P
you could also take a look at /usr/share/examples/bootforth then
have something like :
/boot/stable.conf
currdev="disk1s2a"
rootdev="disk1s2a"
/boot/current.conf
currdev="disk1s3a"
rootdev="disk1s3a"
hope this help ?
Cyrille.
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