Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:43:19 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual booting -stable & -current Message-ID: <p05101002b77e801cce01@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com> References: <20010720183229.A9022@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3B588760.E5875DBB@herbelot.com>
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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
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