From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 10:07:36 2003 Return-Path: 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 295AD16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:07:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0F743D2F for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hBNI6hN16557; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:06:43 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200312231806.hBNI6hN16557@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:06:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Garance A Drosihn" at Dec 23, 2003 12:52:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Leif Neland cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Must root be on slice 'a'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:07:36 -0000 > > At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote: > > > >Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't > >boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? > > It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you > want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type > commands into the boot loader), you will find it much easier > to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a' > be the first slice in the DOS-style partition. Just be careful on your terminology. The neither the 'a' nor the 'e' partition is a slice. In your example above, the slice is '3' which has in it a partition called 'e'. You are using the terms backwards. So, it is disk 1, slice 3, partition e above. Otherwise I think the answer is correct. It is overall better to set up your disk so that your root and boot partition is 'a' in whichever slice you boot from. For many things this is the default and there may be some things that just plain assume this. Enjoy, ////jerry > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > _______________________________________________