From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 15 0:24:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB2837B66C; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA27379; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:24:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:24:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Mike Meyer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <20001015002453.A27355@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:18:05PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:18:05PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Nope, the loader can load stuff from other partitions, even from some strange > ones like msdos ;), so theoretically it should be possible to have /boot, or > even /boot/kernel, on another partition (it may require to tweak loader config > files, though), but I really do not see any reasons behind such weird setup. Our IA-64 offering may end up having /boot as a native partition (ie, vfat32) as their firmware understands it. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message