Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:51:09 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two FreeBSD slices, 32bit and 64bit Message-ID: <200507210651.12163.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <42DED645.5020602@reidel.info> References: <42DED645.5020602@reidel.info>
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Le Thursday 21 July 2005 00:55, Mark Daniel Reidel a écrit : > Hello, > > I bought an athlon64 processor recently and everything went just fine > using my old installation of FreeBSD in 32bit mode. > Then I decided to give amd64 a try, deleted some unneeded linux-slices > and created a new FreeBSD slice with a single partition. The current > layout looks like this: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/ad2s1 * 1 7 56196 6 FAT16 > /dev/ad2s2 8 20 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/ad2s3 21 3668 29302560 a5 FreeBSD > /dev/ad2s4 3669 14593 87755062+ 5 Extended > /dev/ad2s5 3669 9812 49351648+ a5 FreeBSD > /dev/ad2s6 9813 14592 38395318+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > Hello, I don't think booting FreeBSD from an /extended/ partition is really supported : FreeBSD must boot from a primary partition. You could create more partitions in ad2s3 (ad2s3d, for example) and install 64-bit FreeBSD in ad2s3d, then use grub to select the FreeBSD version : title FreeBSD 32bits root (hd1,2,a) kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD 64bits root (hd1,2,d) kernel /boot/loader Just use the tools are they are meant to be ;-) Cheers TfH PS : this post does not really belong in -current - you may have better luck on -questions.
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