Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:23:12 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@nuxi.com> To: Steve Wingate <s.wingate@pobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dualbooting STABLE & CURRENT Message-ID: <20031102202312.GB52314@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031101131821.U253@daemon.g-e-e-k.net> References: <20031101131821.U253@daemon.g-e-e-k.net>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:26:10PM -0800, Steve Wingate wrote:
> STABLE taking the entire first disk (works fine)
> CURRENT taking the first 1/3 of the second disk and
> backup data taking the remaining 2/3 of the second disk.
>
> I have installed CURRENT (at least 8 times) but I cannot get it to boot.
> Choosing F1 on booteasy boots STABLE. Choosing F5 boots nothing but it
> then shows an F2 entry for FreeBSD. I choose F2 and nothing happens. I
> have tried boot easy on the first disk, the second disk, both disks and
> nothing seems to work. I have tried making both slices making bootable and
> every possible derivative I can think of. What am I missing here?
What exact steps did you take to set this up?
Also please boot into some version of FreeBSD and post the output of:
fdisk da0
disklabel da0s1
fdisk da1
disklabel da1s1
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