Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:39:37 +0300 (MSK) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx (Eduardo Viruena Silva) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting partition Message-ID: <199903091939.WAA09441@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903081304550.10829-100000@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx> from "Eduardo Viruena Silva" at "Mar 8, 99 01:24:05 pm"
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Eduardo Viruena Silva writes: > I think this is not a question but an observation... > > I have asked you about a problem that occurres when you install FreeBSD in > two different PARTITIONS of the same IDE disk. It seems to me that > FreeBSD does not let you do that, I mean, you cannot have version 2.2.8 > and version 3.0 in the same disk because the installation process destroys > one of the disk labels. (I made a question about it some weeks ago, > they answered me that I have made a mess with my disk labels, so I > repeated the experiment and it happened again... I installed version 2.2.8 > in partition 1, and version 3.0 in partition 2. Patition 2 became a > mess). > > Some other Unix versions (the old ultrix and osf/1) require three > "coordinates" for specifying the kernel's position: the disk number, the > patition number, and the slice letter. > > So, if you want to start from disk 2, patition 1, slice a, > the loader should have to receive: > > wd(2,1,a)kernel > > and not: > wd(2,a)kernel > > But this is not possbile in FreeBSD loader. > > I am not saying only non-sense, aren't I? > > Could you do something for correct this? Why do you need different slices? This is my way as example: wd0s1a / for 2.2.8-R wd0s1b swap for 2.2.8-R and 3.1-R wd0s1d / for 3.1-R wd0s1e /tmp for 2.2.8-R and 3.1-R wd0s1f / with /var & /usr in it for 2.1.7-R wd0s1g /home for 2.2.8-R and 3.1-R and 2.1.7-R ..... wd0s2d /var for 3.1-R wd0s2e /var for 2.2.8-R ..... wd0s3g /usr for 3.1-R wd0s3h /usr for 2.2.8-R ... so on When you share the same disk with BSDI then use only s1 partitions for BSDI (for compatibility disk labels) -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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