From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 21:38: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68D837B405 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bb4M-0008Mv-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 05:38:02 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id B484913040 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:38:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 13422225BC; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:38:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:38:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <20020215053801.GA577@raggedclown.net> References: <1013733649.3c6c59114e6a2@webmail.health.ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:35:50PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > sridharv@ufl.edu writes: > > > Why did freebsd choose not to have a separate /boot partition like linux? any > > specific issues? just curious > > mail to me as i am not subscribed > > The last time I used Linux (about a year ago), it didn't have /boot on a > separate partition either. These are just installer software default > choices. During the install of either OS, using installers I've seen, > you can make /boot a separate partition or not; your choice. > > The only reason I know to put it on a separate partition is to have > certain boot files located in the first 1024 cylinders when the boot > loader has that problem with the boot disk. I guess someone decided > that it would be better to have the more rare case require extra steps > (to separate /boot) than the more usual case (to unseparate it). > > FreeBSD design choices are seldom driven by newbie convenience if it > comes at the expense of a normal user. > Release 5 will put kernels in a /boot directory. Current already does. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message