At 1:24 PM -0400 8/3/99, i (Garance A Drosihn) wrote:
So, my guess is that my primary problem is that I have only a
vague idea of what I'm doing... Where is a good point to start
looking for a better idea? I tried searching the web site for
"multi-boot", but that didn't turn up much. I have a number
of questions from doing this:
1. why does the install turn my HD unbootable? (invalid
partition table). I didn't ask it to re-fdisk anything,
and I didn't ask for it to change my boot loader.
2. I have the BIOS option on so I can boot off larger
hard disks, and indeed it seems I can boot to the
first three partitions. Why can't I get to that final
partition?
3. Can I get it so that booting off the third partition
will smoothly boot into 3.2-stable?
I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with
the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I
have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other
hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so
I want to have a better idea of what I'm doing before I take
another stab at this, to minimize the number of reinstalls
that I wind up doing.
I should also mention that while I do have a second 4-gig scsi
disk to use, it isn't actually installed yet.
Also, I did intend to have a freebsd 4-current system as part
of this multi-boot mix. I don't think I mentioned that last
time. Perhaps I should create one fdisk-style partition per
hard disk, and put all freebsd-related slices (for all the
different freebsd installs) into that one partition? Would
that make things go smoother? (particularly if I put all the
boot-related slices at the start of that fdisk-style partition)
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = g...@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or dro...@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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