Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:24:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <20001015002453.A27355@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:18:05PM %2B0300 References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org>
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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.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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