UFS2 on i386 and amd64

Manuel Stuehn freebsdnewbie at freenet.de
Thu Oct 28 09:14:38 PDT 2004


David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:36:06PM +0200, Manuel Stuehn wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>I'm running momentarily FreeBSD 5.3BETA6-i386 and 5.3RELEASE-amd64 on my
>> AMD64 3200+. Each installation has it's own primary partition where it
>>resides.
>>Is it possible to share /usr/ports, /usr/src/ and /usr/home/ on this
>>machine? In that way, that freebsd-amd64 and freebsd-i386 is working on
>>the same ports- and src-tree?
> 
> 
> Yes, with no problems.

Thanks for your answer.

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


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?

Thanks
Manuel

[1]http://gag.sourceforge.net/


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