Cyrille Lefevre writes: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:23:22PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > How do I dual boot -current and -stable from different slices on the > > same IDE disk? (and linux too.) > > > > When I tell lilo to boot "hde3", I get the -stable boot2 and > > /boot/loader from "hde2" (ad4s2a). I can then monkey around setting > > currdev and hints and unloading the -stable kernel & then boot > > -current, but I'd like to just pop right into -current on ad4s3a if I > > choose it. > > > > Is there a magic bullet? I'd like to continue using lilo so that I > > can choose what OS to load via a serial console.. > > what is the problem w/ the following entries ? > > other=/dev/hde2 > label=stable > alias=s > table=/dev/hde > loader=/boot/chain.b > other=/dev/hde3 > label=current > alias=c > table=/dev/hde > loader=/boot/chain.b
Just that it behaves exactly as described above -- they both boot -stable. > what is the content of /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local > for each FreeBSD ? /boot/loader.conf: -stable: hw.ata.wc=1 -current: console="comconsole" /boot/loader.conf.local is empty both places. > did you tryed grub which is far better than lilo :P x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub understand reiserfs? > you could also take a look at /usr/share/examples/bootforth then > have something like : > > /boot/stable.conf > currdev="disk1s2a" > rootdev="disk1s2a" > > /boot/current.conf > currdev="disk1s3a" > rootdev="disk1s3a" > > hope this help ? Thanks.. it did help. I just discovered liloboot. I may just hack myself together a custom liloboot and forget about it. That seems to be the most straightforward solution. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
