On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:32:48PM +0200, 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?
>
> here's what I have on my (just -Stable for the moment) workstation :
> multi# fdisk ad4
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=35390 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
...
> you may want to use a similar setup (with larger bootable partitions :
> my setup was initially one only 2G partition, but I cut it this way,
> with a shared swap to be able to dual-boot)
But does your system boot from the 'second' FreeBSD installation?
> PS : I also had problems with a 40G disk on my oldish P-II/266 : it
> would not boot from the large disk (I just added a spare 8G which I boot
> from)
Hmmm.
Wilko
[who remembers why all his other systems are SCSI.. ]
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