Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:19:43 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1016864384.63fa08@mired.org> To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it safe to use the 5.0-current boot / mbr on stable? Message-ID: <15509.34559.589483.833595@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net> References: <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net>
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In <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net>, George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net> typed: > is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels? If you're talking about /boot/loader, probably not. If you're talking about boot0, probably so. > (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, although > you would think a farm of hard links could make the boot/kernel stuff > appear in the root & /modules/ paths) You're going to need a multi-OS boot system no matter what. Boot0 won't work very well here, as both will be labelled "FreeBSD", or something similar. Personally, I use grub, and it boots both 5-current and 4-STABLE just fine. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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