> At 8:01 PM +0200 8/3/99, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > > - If I select 3.2 at the PowerBoot menu, it comes up > > > with two messages about "invalid partition", [...] > > > It seems to want to boot 'da(0,a)/kernel', but if I > > > type in 'da(0,e)/kernel', then it boots up fine. > > > >The problem here is a missing `a' partition. Seems like your > >first partition on that slice is `e'. There's a one-line > >patch to boot2 to get this working, but the standard version > >only autoboots from the `a' partition.
I have my main machine setup to boot 3 different operating systems all on one harddisk. My disk is paritioned into 4 fdisk partitions, as follows: 1: Win98 (ugh, but I need to have it to play games :-) (bootable) 2: extended dos partition (non-bootable) 3: FreeBSD 3.2-stable (bootable) 4: FreeBSD 4.0 -current (bootable) Here is my file system layout when running 4.0: /dev/wd0s4a on / (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 16 async 14249) /dev/wd0s3a on /root32 (local, writes: sync 2 async 44) /dev/wd0s3e on /root32/usr (local, writes: sync 2 async 7099) /dev/wd0s4f on /usr (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 2 async 8148) /dev/wd0s4h on /shared (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 1963 async 263656) /dev/wd0s3f on /root32/var (local, writes: sync 2 async 40) /dev/wd0s4g on /var (local, soft-updates, writes: sync 4604 async 69441) (along with a wd0s4b swap partition, which is shared between both FreeBSD versions) When I first tried this, I couldn't boot the 4.0 version because the 4.0 root device was named wd0s4e by my initial 3.2 sysinstall. I had to run disklabel and change the partition name to wd0s4a. After doing that, both versions would boot no problem. I just hit F3 for 3.2-stable, or F4 for 4.0-current. All of my boot blocks were orignally written out with 3.2-stable, but I've since re-written them with 4.0-current boot blocks. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard m...@freebsd.org or m...@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
