From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 17 22:19:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F14A37B416 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 22:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 60093 invoked by uid 100); 18 Mar 2002 06:19:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15509.34559.589483.833595@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:19:43 -0600 To: George Michaelson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it safe to use the 5.0-current boot / mbr on stable? In-Reply-To: <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net> References: <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <200203180515.g2I5FLC11877@durian.apnic.net>, George Michaelson typed: > is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels? If you're talking about /boot/loader, probably not. If you're talking about boot0, probably so. > (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, although > you would think a farm of hard links could make the boot/kernel stuff > appear in the root & /modules/ paths) You're going to need a multi-OS boot system no matter what. Boot0 won't work very well here, as both will be labelled "FreeBSD", or something similar. Personally, I use grub, and it boots both 5-current and 4-STABLE just fine. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message