UFS2 on i386 and amd64

[Ernst W. Winter]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Manuel Stuehn wrote:

> I've installed FreeBSD-RC1 i386 and amd64 on the my machine, as
> before.  But now my computer doesn't boot the i386-FreeBSD. As
> bootmanager i'm using GAG[1], which worked good for me (until
> now?).  This are the /etc/fstabs from my installations:
> 
> amd64-fstab:
> #cat /etc/fstab
> # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
> /dev/ad4s1b     none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad4s1a     /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad4s1h     /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1d     /usr/home       ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1e     /usr/ports      ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1f     /usr/src        ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1g     /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/acd0       /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> /dev/acd1       /cdrom1         cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> /dev/acd2       /cdrom2         cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> 
> i386-fstab:
> #cat /mnt/etc/fstab
> # Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
> /dev/ad4s1b     none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad4s2a     /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad4s2e     /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1d     /usr/home       ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1e     /usr/ports      ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s1f     /usr/src        ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad4s2d     /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/acd0       /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> /dev/acd1       /cdrom1         cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> /dev/acd2       /cdrom2         cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> 
>From a gues and my own experience I would say since both do have the
same in fstab it might not be right. I had the same here and the
second drive was/had a different configuraten and once I booted
booted with the live CD and corrected it then it wrked fine.

> I've also tried :
> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
>      Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
>      boot:0:ad(2,a)/boot/loader
> This worked well in my former i386-amd64 installation. But now, 
> everytime amd64 is booted.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
Again have a look when you boot form a live cd and then what your
machine will tell you what they really are.

Ernst