Re: Booting

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From
Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Date
18 Feb 2001 09:49:40
Subject
Re: Booting
Message-ID
200102181749.f1IHnZi27695@iguana.aciri.org


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> Hello All
>
> Problem:
>
> It is near impossible to have two FreeBSD partitions on a single HDD and
> boot between them ( i say this from the point of view that it is impossible
> to maintain this configuration when doing an upgrade on the Second FBSD
> Partition). So i was wondering if anyone out there has booted PicoBSD from
> anyting other than a FreeBSD partition ie DOS, ext2fs etc

I am a bit unclear on why you mention picobsd because it seems to
me that you would have similar problems.

At any rate, with the recent commits that i made to the PicoBSD
code in RELENG_4, the kernel is fully self-contained -- it includes
the full file system image that you need. So what you could do is
just load (from the bootloader) your /kernel.picobsd instead of
your standard kernel, and you should have what you need.

cheers
luigi
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