From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 20:30:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F6616A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:30:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC0743D45 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:30:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from lucy.axe.homelinux.net ([82.36.124.90]) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:31:31 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (purplehaze [192.168.0.3]) by lucy.axe.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DF317659 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:30:45 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:30:43 +0100 From: Ross Kendall Axe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.rossaxe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/.pgpkey Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2005 20:31:31.0211 (UTC) FILETIME=[AE8505B0:01C58BD7] Subject: /boot on a separate partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:30:48 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am currently trying to get to grips with FreeBSD and am trying it out on an old Pentium machine. However, the machine's BIOS can't seem to read past 504MB, so I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration? I don't particularly want to go for the standard 'small / partition and separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home...' since I only have a 1GB drive to play with and judging the partition sizes down the nearest KB would be... tricky. I have performed this procedure before (many, many times) on Linux using both LILO and GRUB, but I can't seem to get my head around the FreeBSD bootloader. Ross -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC3BFz9bR4xmappRARAiq1AJ9oI6wg4Ymk4DfHL+H9ol95L6IKEwCguOUC z9nGRsAj5+PhVbY0rRkqIuc= =qYhk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----