From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 21:10:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF7437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B9343F75 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5D4AEpj012927; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:10:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:10:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: JacobRhoden Message-ID: <20030613041014.GJ53468@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200306131345.19437.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306131345.19437.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE with swap partion as first partion is bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 04:10:15 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 13), JacobRhoden said: > I dont know if this has always been the case, but someone in our > office (new to FreeBSD) was trying to install 5.1 with the swap > partion first. He tried very hard for hours, but he couldnt get it to > work (even after I told him try having the swap partion second > instead). Is it documented that having the swap partion first is bad, > or is it simply a bug (errata?). Having the swap partition being partition 'a' is bad. The BSD stage2 bootblocks need /boot/loader to be in partition 'a' (see the boot(8) manpage). Swap should always be 'b'. Having said that, there is no reason partition 'b' has to be physically after partition 'a'. All my systems that have a single filesystem have swap starting at cylinder 0, and the filesystem comes after it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com