From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 13 15:28:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EF216A400 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:28:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mr.hyro@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F2B13C4AA for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:28:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mr.hyro@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so561995mue for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:28:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m4BC54mZPS5FLuPqlYQZp+mKEQTOyqtf2FJshtl0jtBItVD1EZVGrn3YRoBQCoqSr0VRQe6pHHXPFja+NPs7EV04NGRd4cNPk0mmXjsCgYYcovTQ58tdIj/lwJmjwO/EX94XhVmjpRxn3pXaeYkIBNOyjsNoGJ+8HBjZ5uRJCF8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=av4XQXwl5iBqdZA8Vs7NRoi1C3kTtzFiF0+WWJHCiZPDbFLs/rWPuvRCt4zgakJlKN/BlDYlR8KXxiarBaYm6Feautanym9H8aTdy+QZuS46FFA4BWj0L/5AaRRNytgjOGENqNKXaIU3O5MnnEG1TZ7QHFCIRLxLrbWPbByZHRY= Received: by 10.82.108.9 with SMTP id g9mr2079741buc.1184338986115; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.191.1 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24393ae80707130803u30dc1774u983d7c39d74ecd27@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:03:06 -0400 From: "Andrey Shuvikov" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <46975EC6.90907@cyberleo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070713115602.54966b2c@roxette> <46975EC6.90907@cyberleo.net> Subject: Re: Dual boot FreeBSD(6.2) / Current ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:28:42 -0000 On 7/13/07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How to make a dual boot with Stable and Current ? The FreeBSD loader > > always uses the bsd partition 'a' to load the kernel. So i always boot > > 6.2. > > > > My main boot loader is Gag. > > > > Perhaps install the depeendant filesystems (/, /var, /usr) for the two > versions each in their own slices, and share independant filesystems > (/tmp, /home) from a third slice? > > -- > Fuzzy love, > -CyberLeo > Technical Administrator > CyberLeo.Net Webhosting > http://www.CyberLeo.Net > > > Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ > _______________________________________________ > 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" > When I tried to dual-boot FreeBSD and PC-BSD I noticed that FreeBSD loader always loads the first A5 slice it can find. I used GRUB to change the type of the slice I didn't need to something else (for example, A6, unless you have OpenBSD installed :-)). If Gag can do it too, it could help.