Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:59:08 +0400 From: Peter Andreev <andreev.peter@gmail.com> To: Conny Andersson <ataraxi@telia.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD slices and the Boot Manager Message-ID: <CAE_wXn1J3r%2B4FWJGz-NJcjNquYNVL%2B3fj2ncz9dw=5vvbeUpHg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306291951460.1488@alice.nodomain.nowhere> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306291951460.1488@alice.nodomain.nowhere>
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Why wouldn't you simply update your 8.1 to 8.4? 2013/7/27 Conny Andersson <ataraxi@telia.com> > Hi, > > I have a workstation with two factory installed hard disks. The first > disk, ada0, is occupied by a Windows 7 Pro OS (mainly kept for the three > year warranty of the workstation as Dell techs mostly speak the Microsoft > language). > > Instead I have configured the BIOS to boot from the MBR on the second disk > as I most of the time (99%) use FreeBSD. The MBR on ada1 was installed with > sysinstall's option "Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager", when I installed > the FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE. > > (The latest BIOS version 2.4.0 for Dell T1500 does not support > UEFI/GPT/GUID.) > > The second disk ada1, now has three FreeBSD slices: > > 1) ada1s1 with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE > > 2) ada1s2 with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE > > 3) ada1s3 with FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE > > I want to install the new FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE on ada1s1 by overwriting the > now existing two first slices. This means that ada1s3, must become ada1s2 > instead. Is this possible to do? > > A very important question is if sysinstall's option "Install the FreeBSD > Boot Manager" detects that I have a FreeBSD 8.3 and detect it as slice 2 on > disk 1? So it becomes a boot option when I am rebooting? (Maybe the slice > may come up as ad6s2, because AHCI in FreeBSD 8.4 isn't enabled at the time > of the install.) > > If the answer to these questions is yes, then the next two questions arise. > > Can I mount ada1s2a (FreeBSD 8.3) from the newly installed FreeBSD 8.4 and > edit my FreeBSD's 8.3-R /etc/fstab according to the new disk layout, and > occasionally run FreeBSD 8.3 without problems? Or do I have to do more to > get it to work? > > The idea behind this kind of 'reverse' disk layout of mine is to have > FreeBSD 8.4 as my new default OS. And have FreeBSD 8.3 untouched for > configuring FreeBSD 8.4 and booting into it when ever needed. If I can do > this as described above, I will have plenty of space on the disk for the > future and a new FreeBSD release. > > > Thanks for your interest in my questions, > > Conny Andersson > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Conny Andersson > <ataraxi@telia.com> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscribe@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>" > -- Is there any problem Exterminatus cannot solve? I have not found one yet.
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