Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:49:04 +0300 From: Michael Dexter <dexter@ambidexter.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 5.x separate /boot slice? Message-ID: <a0623094ebf178314f32a@[192.168.1.102]>
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Hello, I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x... (http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch08.html) But alas it does not appear to be as simple as simply specifying a /boot during setup. This causes the bootloader to complain about not finding a kernel given that /boot on the root partition is empty. Presumably this is too early in the boot process to link <root>/boot to the /boot slice given that the fstab has not been read yet. Any pointers on how to get this to work? Perhaps the boot loader needs to be pointed at the /boot slice rather than root and a "rootdev" variable fed into a specific loader stage? I'm not sure! Appreciated, Michael.
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