From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 16 18:36:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EB937B494; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA89645; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:36:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:36:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Terry Lambert Cc: Maxim Sobolev , "Michael C . Wu" , Mike Meyer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? In-Reply-To: <200010170128.SAA05793@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >I could have a 40G /, and not worry about the cylinder spanning >problem, if my /boot were in a seperate (low) partition. > >I could have a / that was of an FS type not understood by the >kernel, until after a module defining the FS type had been >loaded. > >I could have a / that was on a controller for which I did not >have a device comiled into my kernel, and only loaded it as a >module from an FS type that it _did_ understand. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Garth, I think that was a haiku. -- Brandon D. Valentine "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message