Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:45:41 -0600 (CST) From: Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to install two FreeBSD releases a single disc? (fwd) Message-ID: <199901121545.JAA18657@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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I haven't heard from Mike, so I decided to post this question back to -stable list. Any help ? Thanks! Igor ----- Forwarded message from Igor Roshchin ----- On 7 December 1998, Mike Smith proclaimed: > > I like to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 (2.2.8) and 3.0 on the same disc. > > Because the FreeBSD boot loader looks for the first compatibility slice, it > 's > > only possible to boot from the first installed release (first slice). > > Install the 'new' bootstrap from 3.0 on both the 2.2 and 3.0 slices. > See the 'disklabel' manpage; the new bootstrap lives in the files > /boot/boot1 and /boot/boot2 on the 3.0 install's root filesystem. Hello, Mike, About a month ago you wrote the above mentioned message. I could not get it loading from the second slice of the same disk in the configuration where two different versions of FreeBSD reside on one hard drive on different slices. I think I might be missing something. Let me also ask you what you meant by talking about having the bootstrap "on both slices". Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the bootstrap is installed on a disk, and not per slice. Another question - how do you specify in the /etc/boot.config - which slice to boot up from ? Thanks, Igor ----- End of forwarded message from Igor Roshchin ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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