From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 19 17: 6:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE8E37B6FE for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p51-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.52]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id KAA18848; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:06:25 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38D57225.9039963@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:34:45 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Richard Wackerbarth , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions References: <00031811062100.03963@nomad.dataplex.net> <200003190442.VAA04896@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message