From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 8 7:50:22 1999 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 DA01C14D1B for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 07:50:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.113]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id AAA08649; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:49:44 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3826F082.1CDFAC78@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:47:14 +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: Roelof Osinga Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> <3826EBF5.6FD7794D@newsguy.com> <3826EEF6.4F676BCD@nisser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roelof Osinga wrote: > > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > mount wd0a /mnt? Is it too much typing for you? > > And then they tell *me* to stop being sarcastic! HAH! Since when, pray > tell, does root reside below mnt? /me sighs mount wd0a /mnt mount /mnt/dev/wd... /... chroot /mnt > > You mean two _slices_, one on the first 1024, and the other at the > > end of the disk containing the usual _partitions_ (FreeBSD > > terminoloy -- not getting religious here, just clarifying)? This is > > a common work-around. > > Nope, I mean two *partitions*. You see, *I* did RTFM. > > FYI what you suggest is nonsense. Won't work since that is not the > way things work. Would work in, say, Linux, not in FreeBSD. Nor, I > think but it's been awhile, in OpenBSD. Sure it works. Eg: First slice: FreeBSD on low cylinders Second slice: Other Operating System Third slice: FreeBSD on high cylinders mount /dev/wd0s1a / mount -t whatever /dev/wd0s2 /otheroperatingsystem mount /dev/wd0s3f /usr mount /dev/wd0s3... ... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message