From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 15:39:58 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E9F1065672 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BD78FC1D for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:39:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDADAFBC01; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:39:57 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:39:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200809191017.m8JAHZvl092865@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200809191017.m8JAHZvl092865@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809201739.33951.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Robert Lebovich , Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:39:58 -0000 On Friday 19 September 2008 12:17:35 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > Mel wrote: > > > > that's aside from the fact that the root partition '/' always has to > > > > be the first partition, for the simple reason that everything else > > > > is mounted on top of it. > > > > > > It's not the partition device names that determine the mount order, > > > but the order of the entries in /etc/fstab. > > > > Actually not even the order in /etc/fstab matters. You can > > place the root file system last and it will still work. > > Uhm, just to be sure: We are talking about the *root* file > system here. > > Of course, the order of the *remaining* file systems in > /etc/fstab (without "noauto" flag) *does* matter, because > this is the order in which they are mounted by the RC > scripts. Only the root file system is special. Yeah, I was too short in previous reply, but since sysinstall both picks partition name and writes /etc/fstab the end result for the user is the same. "First do root, then the rest and don't create partitions that are supposed to be put on top of another partition, before creating that partition first". > PS: BTW, Mel, your email address doesn't work. I get > bounces from your mail server. I know, still been too lazy to implement whitelisting, so anything not .freebsd.org at RCPT TO: is bounced. Maybe this time the post-it will stick to my monitor ;) -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.