From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 23:38:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-26.cybercable.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B5537B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA08089; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:37:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3B59234D.CAADC791@herbelot.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 08:38:05 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010720210609.A53370@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ > > Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. > > This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. > > > > What I did is create > > ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable > > ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for -current > > ad0s3 -> roughly 14G holds tmp,var,usr,usr/obj for -stable > > ad0s4 -> ditto for -current > > You are getting bit by the "root" aliasing code (IIRC this is the right > way to describe the problem). This makes it impossible to install > multiple copies of FreeBSD on a single disk w/o hacking around the > system. :-( I do not understand what this problem is : - I've got one system with two bootable FreeBSD "BIOS" partitions (the one I already sent info about (these are two -Stable versions) and both versions have been installed via /stand/sysinstall - Another system runs with two FreeBSD "BIOS" partitions (used to switch between 3-Stable and 4-Stable) the boot0 boot selector is used to switch between releases - a third (a notebook) has one FreeBSD "BIOS" partition and used to be shared between 4-Stable and -Current (using all 8 FreeBSD partitions in the slice and using the loader to select ad0s4a or ad0s4e for root partition) - In this case, /stand/sysinstall was unable to create all 8 FreeBSD partitions : I had to first install FreeBSD on ad0s3, cut 8 partitions in ad0s4, then reinstall in ad0s4. [SNIP] -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message