From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 14:23: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA31737B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.142.29.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.142.29] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16PWYE-00015E-00; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22:58 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0CMMrP21475; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:22:53 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Mike Meyer Cc: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen , "Gary W. Swearingen" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Message-ID: <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <78852280@toto.iv> <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ X-Mutt-References: <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org> X-Mutt-Fcc: =sent 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 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. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message