Re: Invalid Partition - help on setting up loader
--- Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list. Merry Christmas!! This is my first post on a Freebsd Mailing List, so don't be too harsh on me if my ettiquette isn't acceptable. Ok, I guess I'll get to the heart of this post: I'm trying to figure out how to boot 5-releng-1 alongside my 4-stable slice. After a surprisingly successful buildworld/kernel, installworld, I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel the appropriate partitions. By the way, both slices exist on the same disk. Booting to stable was fine, however, booting to current gave me: invalid partion I was, however, able to get it to work, when I pointed the boot to 0:ad(2,e)/boot/loader (which is the location of my current's root partition.) The FreeBSD boot process wants to use a partition from active slice by default. You can try set rootdev in /boot/loader.conf to your / partition. Please see the archives, this issues have been discussed before. If the error persists, check which slice is marked active in PT. HTH, /Dorin. I'm happy with how my current installation went, but I may have missed a crucial step along the way. Any advice welcome [edit] I was referred here from the newbies list. Go figure. If this isn't a newb question, what is? PS. Running 5.x and 4.x on same disk is not just a walk in the park :). Good luck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Invalid Partition - help on setting up loader
Hi list. Merry Christmas!! This is my first post on a Freebsd Mailing List, so don't be too harsh on me if my ettiquette isn't acceptable. Ok, I guess I'll get to the heart of this post: I'm trying to figure out how to boot 5-releng-1 alongside my 4-stable slice. After a surprisingly successful buildworld/kernel, installworld, I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel the appropriate partitions. By the way, both slices exist on the same disk. Booting to stable was fine, however, booting to current gave me: invalid partion I was, however, able to get it to work, when I pointed the boot to 0:ad(2,e)/boot/loader (which is the location of my current's root partition.) I'm happy with how my current installation went, but I may have missed a crucial step along the way. Any advice welcome [edit] I was referred here from the newbies list. Go figure. If this isn't a newb question, what is? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Invalid Partition - help on setting up loader
Following up on my own question: I've been browsing the net for any pertinent information Most of the results I've found indicate that Freebsd Partitions are booted from their first partition. For instance, my 0:ad(2,e)/boot/loader workaround can't be deployed permanently. Apparently I should have created a ad0s2a partition in order to get things working. My researching into boot0cfg, disklabel ( I guess those are the only binaries pertinent to my situation. I'm not interested in running lilo, or grub, as I want to make certain that ufs2 is widely tested first. If I'm wrong - and I hope that I am, could somebody comment on this? Thanks in advance :) - Original Message - From: Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: Invalid Partition - help on setting up loader Hi list. Merry Christmas!! This is my first post on a Freebsd Mailing List, so don't be too harsh on me if my ettiquette isn't acceptable. Ok, I guess I'll get to the heart of this post: I'm trying to figure out how to boot 5-releng-1 alongside my 4-stable slice. After a surprisingly successful buildworld/kernel, installworld, I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk/disklabel the appropriate partitions. By the way, both slices exist on the same disk. Booting to stable was fine, however, booting to current gave me: invalid partion I was, however, able to get it to work, when I pointed the boot to 0:ad(2,e)/boot/loader (which is the location of my current's root partition.) I'm happy with how my current installation went, but I may have missed a crucial step along the way. Any advice welcome [edit] I was referred here from the newbies list. Go figure. If this isn't a newb question, what is? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
