Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:37:54 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011307075.d89648@mired.org> To: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1011265367.36e001@mired.org>, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations of BSD-slices. Message-ID: <15424.47810.822225.266264@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <78852280@toto.iv> <15424.6103.544570.250164@guru.mired.org> <20020112142253.A21445@blossom.cjclark.org>
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Crist J . Clark <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> types: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:02:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > 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. When I ran into the problem, the easiest way to get the system to boot was to boot a different partition, and use disklabel to make "a" the boot partition. That's been most of a year ago, so this may well have been fixed. Have you configured a system to autoboot from an arbitrary partition? Even if this restriction hasn't changed, it's minor - it just means that if one of your partitions is going to be used for booting, it has to be a. Since it's just a label chosen from a relatively meaningless set, it's isn't a difference that makes a difference. Thanx, <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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