From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 17:21:27 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 ADD2A16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:21:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BCC43D77 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:21:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBDHJJY5044275; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:19:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <439F028C.3010603@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:19:08 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <200512130029.jBD0T11I020665@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <9CF863F9FF55D6301DA0C9B3@[192.168.10.249]> <439EF402.9030101@daleco.biz> <439EF9FA.4010801@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <439EF9FA.4010801@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sasa Stupar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices 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: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:21:27 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >> A word of probable caution (though I stand ready to be corrected): >> FreeBSD isn't like Linux in the fact that it expects /boot to be >> in / (the 'a' slice of whatever disk the bootmgr has been instructed >> to use)... so a seperate /boot will likely get you in trouble.... >> > You're not wrong. /boot directory should be on / partition. This has > come up before but my attempts to find the discussion failed :-( > > Nitpickingly, that's the "a" BSD-partition of whatever slice > (aka "fdisk partition") of whatever disk bootmgr has been instructed > to use. Thanks - I'm occasionally a tad lax with some terminology. As for the "attempts to find the discussion" ... read on... Giorgios Keramidas wrote: >See the archives of this mailing lists for reasons why it's discouraged >in the FreeBSD world. Seems I was a tad off in my earlier estimate of "within the last 60 days"... but Googling for " 'boot like linux' freebsd" produces the thread I was thinking of (the initial post of which is here): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/079428.html Kevin Kinsey -- Take your Senator to lunch this week.