From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 21 9:55: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF2937B403 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 09:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04986 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6LGssD18516 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:54:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:54:54 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <20010721185454.A18482@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com>; from nobody@NUXI.com on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700 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 09:06:09PM -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