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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:13:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "A.J. Werner" <warp9@northlink.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Multiple Root Partitions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329231311.23543X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980323164209.28714A-100000@prescott.northlink.com>

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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, A.J. Werner wrote:

> Question: Can FreeBSD 2.2.5 see multiple root partitions on different 
> drives? 

Should.

> I have a 2 GB partition and a 4 GB partition.  We want to use the 6GB 
> partition as a backup of the other two drives to be bootable and just 
> tar everything over.  We figured out how to get around the boot up 
> problem through the SCSI bios, but now FreeBSD 2.2.5 cannot mount the 
> backup at all.  We just want to be able to mount the partition so we can 
> tar the 2 & 4 over as a backup of the box.  Here is what I have:
> 
> 	partition       mounted as
>        /dev/sd0a           /                               
>        /dev/sd0s1f         /usr
>        /dev/sd1s1e         /usr/users
>        /dev/sd0s1e         /var
>        
> but when I go to mount the 6GB drive, it does not recognize it.  I just 
> want to mount it as /backup and then have it bootable to be root incase 
> of failure.  Any suggestions???

Could you be more specific?  I don't understand the mapping between disks.
I don't see any reference to /backup either.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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