From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 23:14:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01467 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:14:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01427 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23737; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 23:13:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "A.J. Werner" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Multiple Root Partitions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message