From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 14:38: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5239837B402 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68873 invoked by uid 100); 12 Jan 2002 22:37:55 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15424.47810.822225.266264@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:37:54 -0600 To: "Crist J . Clark" Cc: Mike Meyer , Bjarne Wichmann Petersen , "Gary W. Swearingen" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. In-Reply-To: <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <78852280@toto.iv> <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org> <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.43 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist J . Clark types: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:02:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > and I've only got 4 partition within a slice, a-d being reserved and h > > > > being the maximum. > > Again, you're describing the default installation, not real > > limits. The only partitions that are reserved are a and c. If you're > > going to boot a partition, it has to be a. > Nope. But that's the one the boot loader will look for by default. When I ran into the problem, the easiest way to get the system to boot was to boot a different partition, and use disklabel to make "a" the boot partition. That's been most of a year ago, so this may well have been fixed. Have you configured a system to autoboot from an arbitrary partition? Even if this restriction hasn't changed, it's minor - it just means that if one of your partitions is going to be used for booting, it has to be a. Since it's just a label chosen from a relatively meaningless set, it's isn't a difference that makes a difference. Thanx, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message