Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:34:45 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <38D57225.9039963@newsguy.com> References: <00031811062100.03963@nomad.dataplex.net> <200003190442.VAA04896@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> These old days must predate my involvement in unix....
>
> I have a system with 3 bsd partitions. The first one is 4.0, the
> second 3.4 stable and the third is unused. I've not been able to get
> the boot0 boot loader to boot off the second partition. I've been
> able to get /boot/loader to do it w/o much of a problem:
> set currdev=disk1s2:
> unload
> boot /kernel
> although I suppose that I could also say boot disk1s2:/kernel
You can have a menu come up and offer the choice between the partitions,
and then boot one of them if timed out.
--
Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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