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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:10:58 -0400
From:      Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, charon@seektruth.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's boot manager
Message-ID:  <NJWUNJ72VQSPZUURD0RPIEDZGIFPJ.3cb56132@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <200204110228.g3B2Slsw006163@midway.uchicago.edu>

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4/10/2002 10:28:46 PM, David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 
wrote:

[snip]
>I now run just FreeBSD -stable, but I wanted to 
>install -current.  I had about 4GB unused at the beginning of my disk, 
so I 
>thought I'd put -current there.  I installed -current and FreeBSD's boot 
>manager.  Rebooting, it gave me the options of F1 (FreeBSD) and F2 
(FreeBSD) 
>(is there any way of changing these names to something useful?).  F1 
>(-current) boot fine, but F2 just beeped at me and did nothing.
[snip]

Regarding booting from -CURRENT and -STABLE on the same 
machine, that was discussed on this list not long ago (a couple of 
months, perhaps?), so Google is your friend.  Go to Google Groups and 
search mailing.freebsd.questions.

Jud




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