Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22:53 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1011265367.36e001@mired.org> Cc: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Message-ID: <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1011265367.36e001@mired.org on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:02:47AM -0600 References: <78852280@toto.iv> <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org>
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:02:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
[snip]
> > > and I've only got 4 partition within a slice, a-d being reserved and h
> > > being the maximum.
>
> Again, you're describing the default installation, not real
> limits. The only partitions that are reserved are a and c. If you're
> going to boot a partition, it has to be a.
Nope. But that's the one the boot loader will look for by default.
> It may have to start at
> offset zero to boot as well, but I haven't tried changing that
> one.
Nope, it doesn't.
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