Date: Wed, 25 Nov 98 14:24:04 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: thallgren@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: compat slice Message-ID: <H000057c01a5b6e4@MHS> In-Reply-To: <19981125122412.17407.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>
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Hello, I've attempted something similar on my home box and I screwed up everything. I had a -Stable partition and I've added a 3.0-Release partition. The net result was I could no more boot the Stable partition. (in fact, I wanted to clone my first Stable partition to make the aout-to-elf Stable to Current transition) I haven't investigated to know wether this is a limitation of FreeBSD or BootEasy (very likely the latter's fault). My solution : use a second disk and have one bootable FreeBSD partition on each disk (this works : I have it now on my box) Hope this helps TfH > Hi! > > I'm trying to use both -CURRENT and -STABLE, on different slices on > the same disk. The first slice is for -CURRENT(a DOS one that I'm > nuking) and the second is for -STABLE. > > I use the 2.2.7-RELEASE bootdisk to fdisk and disklabel the -CURRENT > slice. However, when I reboot the boot:-prompt says "empty partition", > and "kernel not found". Fdisk also shows the flag "C"(as in > compatibility) for the first slice. > > To boot -STABLE again, I must remove the newly added slice. > > I though the removal of the compat devices should enable me to do > something like this. Is this possible or must I use two different > disks? > > Please CC me since I'm not on this list. > > Regards, Tommy(thallgren@yahoo.com) > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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