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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

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