Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:20:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199602012120.OAA13751@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199602010754.IAA25720@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 1, 96 08:54:14 am
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> The kernel doesn't automount swap _slices_ at all, and even swap > _partitions_ are not automounted at all. They are only mounted with > an explicit swapon(8) early in /etc/rc. What's with the crap in /sys/i386/i386/machdep.c and the kernel config file, then? > > The default installation tools "mandate" this. > > No. I've installed a system a couple of days ago. The swap partition > was the fourth partition, even though the installation program > assigned it to the partition `b' (as i was expecting). And that was > my point: the name is in no way related to the location on the disk. > For sysinstall, the location on the disk does simply correlate to a > ``first entered, first on disk'' scenario. Nobody tells you that you > gotta assign a swap partition right after assigning root. They used to mandate this. The "mandate" this when you hit "A" for "auto". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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