Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:54:54 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <20010721185454.A18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com>; from nobody@NUXI.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700 References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700, 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. :-( Thanks a lot for making me feel less dim ;-) This indeed fixed it. I always though Unix^WFreeBSD was supposed to allow you to shoot yourself in the foot. sysinstall obviously decided it needed to outsmart me. Duh.. W/ -- | / 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
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