On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:06:09PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:32:29PM +0200, 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
>
> You are getting bit by the "root" aliasing code (IIRC this is the right
> way to describe the problem). This makes it impossible to install
> multiple copies of FreeBSD on a single disk w/o hacking around the
> system. :-(
Thanks a lot for making me feel less dim ;-)
This indeed fixed it. I always though Unix^WFreeBSD was supposed to allow
you to shoot yourself in the foot. sysinstall obviously decided it needed
to outsmart me.
Duh..
W/
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