From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 13: 8:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sigtrap.com (ip212-226-143-10.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.143.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D3F437B71D for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from desti@sigtrap.com) Received: (qmail 25232 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 21:06:14 -0000 Received: from ip212-226-143-11.adsl.kpnqwest.fi (HELO sigtrap.com) (desti@212.226.143.11) by ip212-226-143-9.adsl.kpnqwest.fi with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 21:06:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABE7AD5.96B8BE15@sigtrap.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:10:13 +0000 From: Edvard Fagerholm X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple FreeBSDs on one disk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to install both -stable and -current on the same disk with no success. I first tried the installation program, but when I'm installing the second system it tells me it can't do a root partition in the location I want it to be made (in the third slice that is, the second slice is for OpenBSD). To fix this I created /, /var, /tmp, /home, /usr inside my third slice and mounted them under /mnt on my -stable system. Then I tried building the system from source like this: make world DESTDIR=/mnt ... make distribution... ... make buildkernel... make installkernel... cd /mnt/dev sh MAKEDEV all and then I created /mnt/etc/fstab Now I tried booting to my fresh system, but the boot manager wont find any OS in the slice ad0s3 and I have to give it the right parametres by hand i.e. 0:ad(3,e)/boot/loader Now it starts booting my newly created system, but it stops as it doesn't find any of the /dev/ad0s3* disks. After checking /dev I notice that lots of devices are removed including the ad0s3* devices. I really can't come up with any good reason why FreeBSD would remove stuff from /dev, or is the boot manager giving some drive info incorrectly or something? I really hope there's some easy way to install multiple FreeBSD systems on the same disk. Any suggestions are welcome :) - Edvard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message