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Subject: Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the 
 same slice ?
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> the following is my partitions layout, pls help to do some check:
>
> ad0s1d      /boot  -> 30M
> ad0s1a      /  -> 512M
> ad0s1b      swap -> 512M
> ad0s1e      /usr -> 6144M
> ad0s1f       /var -> 512M
> ad0s1g      /home -> 2017M
> ad0s1h      /tmp  -> 512M

I believe /boot needs to be on the first 1024 blocks of the disk. Why do
you want a separate partition for /boot?

John.