Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Gary Palmer
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:02:14AM -0700, Chris wrote: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:17:31 +0200 Toomas Soome tso...@me.com said > > > > On 17. Mar 2020, at 15:51, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > On 17/03/2020 12:58, Florian Limberger wrote: > > >> On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: > > >> >>> For the reco

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Chris
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:17:31 +0200 Toomas Soome tso...@me.com said > On 17. Mar 2020, at 15:51, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 17/03/2020 12:58, Florian Limberger wrote: >> On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: >> >>> For the record. I'm *only* using FreeBSD in this situation. I >>> only mentioned

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 17. Mar 2020, at 15:51, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 17/03/2020 12:58, Florian Limberger wrote: >> On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: >> >>> For the record. I'm *only* using FreeBSD in this situation. I >>> only mentioned Windows above, for the use of it's boot manager. >> >> If you only us

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Chris
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:03:02 -0500 Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net said On 3/16/2020 17:33, Chris wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:24:24 -0500 Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net said > >> On 3/16/2020 17:23, Chris wrote: >> > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. >> > I started wi

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/03/2020 12:58, Florian Limberger wrote: > On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: > >> For the record. I'm *only* using FreeBSD in this situation. I >> only mentioned Windows above, for the use of it's boot manager. > > If you only use FreeBSD, and also use ZFS, you might find beadm[1] > interestin

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:31:59 +0300 Andrey Fesenko wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:24 AM Chris wrote: > > > > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. > > I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi > > boot partition installed. I then grabbed an current 11 > > usbstick, an

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-17 Thread Florian Limberger
On 16.03.20 23:33, Chris wrote: > For the record. I'm *only* using FreeBSD in this situation. I > only mentioned Windows above, for the use of it's boot manager. If you only use FreeBSD, and also use ZFS, you might find beadm[1] interesting. [1]: https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/beadm Regard

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 3/16/2020 17:33, Chris wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:24:24 -0500 Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net said > >> On 3/16/2020 17:23, Chris wrote: >> > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. >> > I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi >> > boot partition installed. I the

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-16 Thread Chris
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:24:24 -0500 Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net said On 3/16/2020 17:23, Chris wrote: > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. > I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi > boot partition installed. I then grabbed an current 11 > usbstick, and install

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-16 Thread Andrey Fesenko
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:24 AM Chris wrote: > > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. > I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi > boot partition installed. I then grabbed an current 11 > usbstick, and installed that. Which stated it needed to > install a (u)efi boot par

Re: what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-16 Thread Karl Denninger
On 3/16/2020 17:23, Chris wrote: > I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. > I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi > boot partition installed. I then grabbed an current 11 > usbstick, and installed that. Which stated it needed to > install a (u)efi boot partition. I let i

what 3rd party boot mgr is required to boot multiple freebsd versions?

2020-03-16 Thread Chris
I'm attempting to boot multiple versions of FreeBSD. I started with an install of older 11 with a (u)efi boot partition installed. I then grabbed an current 11 usbstick, and installed that. Which stated it needed to install a (u)efi boot partition. I let it do it. But the new (additional) install