Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:26:18 -1000 From: Kent Kuriyama <kent.kuriyama@gmail.com> To: reg@dwf.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install to a Partition problems. Message-ID: <CACArijDrMpiEFMn=mOK_Mn7tsg7joKRKCUqFv9PQD4yzCoe6FQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201504232235.t3NMZVmY021704@deneb.dwf.com> References: <201504232235.t3NMZVmY021704@deneb.dwf.com>
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You need to use MBR vice GPT partitioning. While GPT can support multiple boot partitions, the GPT boot loader doesn't let you interactively choose what partition to boot from. The boot loader for MBR does. When installing FreeBSD select the MBR partitioning scheme. You will then be allowed to define up to 4 partitions. Within each partition you can define as many BSD 'slices' each of which contains a UFS or swap area. Once you have installed an instance of FreeBSD into a partition then the MBR boot loader will scan for available bootable partitions and give you a chance to select which partition to boot from. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:35 PM, <reg@dwf.com> wrote: > > I have been trying to install FreeBSD to the 2nd partition > of my disk for several weeks now, with no luck. > > Here is the backstory. > I have a 500GB disk, partitioned into 5 100GB partitions. > I have PCBSD in the first partition. I had tried to put > PCBSD in the 2nd partition an save whatever was in the first, > but finally gave up. > > Now I would like to install FreeBSD into the 2nd partition > and am having the same problems. The documentation (the way > I read it) would imply this is possible, but FreeBSD seems > to want to overwrite the PCBSD in the first partition. > > So, what am I missing? What do I have to do to get the > new installation in the 2nd partition. > > -- > Reg.Clemens > reg@dwf.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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