From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 13:38:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA02278 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA02272 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:38:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA13751; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:20:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602012120.OAA13751@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:20:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602010754.IAA25720@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 1, 96 08:54:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.