Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 23:10:13 +0000 From: Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple FreeBSDs on one disk Message-ID: <3ABE7AD5.96B8BE15@sigtrap.com>
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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
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