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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the
 same	slice ?
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Shark Wang wrote:

>Today, I heard something on the partition policy for FreeBSD.
>
>Someone said that we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot'
>in the same slice, otherwise, the System will not boot up !
>  
>
So what?

Please explain what actual problem you are trying to solve and why you 
would want to make /boot a partition at all?

Have you read relevant sections from the handbook? 

You could start with:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk-organization.html

--Alex