From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 22 13:11:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAD737BB14 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10033; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007222021.NAA10033@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about alpha bootstrap In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:20:21 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:21:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >From looking at the Alpha boot1 code, it seems that the bootstrap > expects there to be a filesystem which starts at the beginning of the > disk, and it finds "/boot/loader" (or whatever filename you type in) > there. So, for example, it wouldn't work to put a swap partition > first on the disk. > > Is that right? That's correct. If you want maximum swap performance, you want swap on the outside of the disk. This typically means working out whether your disk counts inside-out or outside-in, and organising accordingly. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message