Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:32:18 +0000 From: james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to boot alternate installation? Message-ID: <50E4D192.6060102@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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I have a system that boots 9.0+patches (claims to be 9.1-PRERELEASE but that's a stretch in this case) off an ssd on sata0 - I needed some mfi patches. Now that mfi is working, I have a raid1 pair on the mfi controller, and I've unpacked 9.1-RELEASE onto it using bsdinstall. Now, the crappy PERC5 and the AMI BIOS in my little AMD mobo don't really see eye to eye and I've had a lot of trouble coaxing it to boot from the RAID volume (the RAID card initialises late it seems). I'm happy to keep /boot on the SATA SSD for now. Is there a straightforward way to configure (the menus to) boot from 9.1? I'm happy enough to rename /boot on the SSD and copy over the contents from 9.1 (really the old 9.0+ system is there as insurance for the moment). Is the simplest mechanism to do that and override rootdev in loader.conf? It seems that there are a number of variables with "/boot/..." paths so its not so easy to switch between (say) /boot90 and /boot91.
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