From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jul 23 0:12: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A5A37B679 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA12988; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007230721.AAA12988@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about alpha bootstrap In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:21:08 PDT." <200007230521.WAA99377@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 00:21:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In article <200007222021.NAA10033@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, > Mike Smith wrote: > = > [boot1 looks for /boot/loader on filesystem at beginning of disk, right= ?] > > That's correct. > > = > > If you want maximum swap performance, you want swap on the outside of= the = > > disk. This typically means working out whether your disk counts = > > inside-out or outside-in, and organising accordingly. > = > Thanks. My situation actually isn't related to swap. I have a > somewhat stale dual-boot setup where I can get -stable by booting > da0a or -current by booting da0f. But this means I'm using -stable's > /boot/loader in both cases. It hasn't been a problem in the past, but > I suppose it could be one some day. The loader is more likely to be backwards- than forwards-compatible. = Note that if your bootblock is fairly up-to-date you have a window where = you can specify another loader, so you can always boot the -stable = installation, grab the new -current loader across, boot it manually and = then swap to the -current install, so there's still an escape path if = something ugly happens. -- = =2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message