From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 17:43:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDE737B405 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6L0hL477782; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:43:21 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:43:19 -0400 To: Thierry Herbelot , Wilko Bulte From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:32 PM +0200 7/20/01, Thierry Herbelot wrote: >Wilko Bulte wrote: >> >> I'm probably completely dim today so please bear with me :/ >> Thing is I want to setup a dual-boot box, running -stable & -current. >> This box, a P2/266 has a 30G IDE disk. >> >> What I did is create >> ad0s1 -> 256MB -> holds root for -stable >> ad0s2 -> 256MB -> was supposed to hold root for -current >> ad0s3 -> roughly 14G holds tmp,var,usr,usr/obj for -stable >> ad0s4 -> ditto for -current >> >> My recollection is that as long as you keep the root partitions <2 (or 8) GB >> it should be bootable. Hence this somewhat strange slicing. >> >> Thing is, 4.3R refuses to install it's root on ad0s2 (4.3 because I want >> to go current from there). >> > > I'm probably missing something obvious here? Somehow I missed the beginning of this thread. I suspect you're running into the same issue I recently described in a message in the thread on "Suggestions for sysinstall / disklabel" in -hackers. I think I sent it in the last two or three days. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message