Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:44:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default boot partition Message-ID: <19980913004450.A26286@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809121344230.19785-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <19980911185806.A5315@scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809121344230.19785-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > Why on earth is your kernel on the C partition? It should be on the a > partition. Oh. uh, how do I fix that then? According to mount and fstab, my root filesystem is just /dev/wd0s3, no a or c or anything on the end. I'm confused :-( When you say ``C partition'', this doesn't have any relation at all to which slice of wd0 that it's on, does it? It doesn't matter that my kernel is not on the first slice of wd0 does it? If it does matter, that can't change for the time being. (Billy$hit's excuse of an operating system will probably be there a while yet, even though it's hardly ever used.) > Did you disklabel your machine in a wierd way? Probably. (I did most of it with sysinstall, so I just chose the sizes for filesystems, and it did the rest.) It works though, so I'm not going to change anything in a hurry. After reading the docs properly, I see that you can have partitions withing slices, I obviously hadn't read this when installing FreeBSD :-( > Can I see your /etc/fstab? OK... # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/wd2s4b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0s3 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd2s2e /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd2s3e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd2s1a /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd0s1 /dos/c msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s5 /dos/d msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd0s6 /dos/e msdos rw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy ufs rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /dos/a msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 Most of that was generated by sysinstall, I just told it how much space I wanted for /usr, /var and / (which has now been changed to /tmp, now that / has been moved to wd0. This is probably the root (no pun intended) of my problems, I probably screwed something there.) -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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