From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 10:40:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E379E16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:40:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ABA43D3F for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:40:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from homebell@telia.com) Received: by av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 09C8237E5D; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:40:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.163]) by av5-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D5637E54 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:40:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (h138n2fls31o930.telia.com [217.210.244.138]) by smtp3-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA82B37E4D for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:40:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42298C91.4090604@telia.com> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:40:17 +0100 From: "Kjell B." Organization: Not particularly organized User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206 Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dual boot FreeBSD 4.10 and FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:40:21 -0000 I'm about to make the switch from 4.10 to 5.3. However, I don't want to do it in one go, but rather first install 5.3 on a separate physical disk and get all applications installed and configured correctly. Once I've completed the process, the scenario is a RAID-1 setup (gmirror is the route I've chosen after extensive reading). Current situation ----------------- [homebell] ~> uname -a FreeBSD homebell.dyndns.org 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Oct 18 21:48:34 CEST 2004 homebell@homebell.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOMEBELLapmipfw i386 [homebell] ~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 126M 66M 50M 57% / /dev/ad5s1e 252M 64M 168M 28% /rootback /dev/ad5s1f 150G 28G 110G 20% /backup /dev/ad4s1f 252M 90K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s1g 112G 9.8G 93G 10% /usr /dev/ad4s1e 252M 123M 108M 53% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc [homebell] ~# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: acd0 ATA/ATAPI rev 0 Slave: acd1 ATA/ATAPI rev 0 ATA channel 1: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: ad5 ATA/ATAPI rev 6 ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 ATA/ATAPI rev 6 Slave: no device present ATA channels 2 and 3 are on a Promise TX2 ATA133 controller. ATA channel 1 on the motherboard is fried and unused. ad4 hosts my 4.10 installation, ad5 is a pure backup disk, and ad6 is today empty and it's where I will put 5.3 (ad4 will be the mirror to ad6 once the migration is completed). Therefore, I first want to install 5.3 on ad6 (actually ad6s1 I believe) and dual boot between ad4s1(4.10) and ad6s1(5.3) during the migration phase. I'm a bit uncertain as to the procedure to get to the dual boot status. Currently, I have no boot manager installed. Can I install 5.3 onto ad6s1 and from sysinstall install the FreeBSD Boot Manager to both ad4 and ad6? Or should I first do 'fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad4' from within 4.10 (as per the handbook)? Or is 'boot0cfg -B ad4' the proper way of doing it? My concern is of course to not mess up my current 4.10 installation. -- Kjell