From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 07:15:55 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 7FD3616A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:15:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9529643D48 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:15:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from lucy.axe.homelinux.net ([82.36.124.90]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:16:37 +0100 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (purplehaze [192.168.0.3]) by lucy.axe.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883AF516B9; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:15:52 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42DDFA26.2060109@axe.homelinux.net> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:15:50 +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: Glenn Dawson References: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> <20050718142635.E7170@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <42DC53BE.6040205@axe.homelinux.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050718190554.11fe1e10@cobalt.antimatter.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050718193532.11e22eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050718193532.11e22eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> 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: 20 Jul 2005 07:16:37.0803 (UTC) FILETIME=[F7DBFFB0:01C58CFA] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /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: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:15:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: > > > Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea > > of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a > > separate partition. > > Not sure about that...I always figured it was to keep / from getting too > cluttered. I think this is what I must have been thinking of: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#FTN.AEN507 Kind of Linux/x86 specific, and not really what I said. Oh well. Ross -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC3fom9bR4xmappRARAu4sAKDFzVNkEE6KK6i0KFFRnhRS89jiPQCcCEFT qvy+hQsO3Ym3lOEW8DwEti8= =urXW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----