Date: 25 Apr 2003 17:01:22 -0400 From: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems setting up dual-boot Message-ID: <1051304482.76975.33.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <200304252007.h3PK7OeH019858@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200304252007.h3PK7OeH019858@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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--=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 16:07, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Root needs to be the 'a' partition (maybe not absolutely, but everything > seems to assume it is). =20 Yeah, this is the conclusion I'm arriving at as well. I think I'm going to try reinstalling FreeBSD and completely redo the partitions. > Sounds like you need to study the man pages for FreeBSD's fdisk and > disklabel carefully along with the handbook. No doubt .. I've been through page after page of tutorials on how to do this .. The problem is that the terminology is a bit foreign to me, so I continuously get sidetracked just trying to figure out what the words mean.=20 In your experience, is it OK to have dual-boot set up across different physical disks? LILO was perfectly happy with this setup, but I really wasn't happy with Linux. Maybe the FreeBSD boot manager simply does not like switching between disks?=20 --=20 Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> --=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+qaIiu3o4GBMSDL4RAsHyAJoDpmKjPIDffbRkWvJKaCw3XH4H8gCfeHIx hFCT3xy44KmVb4tCxzrvLBA= =0S6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lQ5oAwKUuOQnekM1Cc6i--
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