From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 13:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16417 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:10:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16266 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01276; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:10:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:10:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Gregory G. Losik" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual boot on wd0: fbsd(old)/fbsd(mew) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Gregory G. Losik wrote: > Hey, > > Wonder if someone would clarify why I can't dual boot two different > versions of fbsd located in wd0s2(2.2.2) and wd0s4(2.2.5)? Our boot blocks are pretty dumb; it searches for the first slice with the correct type and boots it. You won't be able to boot wd0s4 unless you disable wd0s2 first. > Related to this, even if I boot 2.2.5 on wd0s4, can I mount /usr fs > located in wd0s2c under some name(ie /usr1) only to get the files from > there? It would be soooo nice. You can mount the filesystems fine. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message