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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:16:17 -0600
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Trond =?iso-8859-1?Q?Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>, Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" 
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003162019300.15393-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.n o>
References:  <200003161652.RAA62158@numeri.campus.luth.se>

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At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote:
>If possible, you should install a small NTFS partition and a small
>FreeBSD slice (only ``/'') below the 1023rd cylinder and use the
>remaining space as you see fit for both NTFS and FreeBSD.

Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap=
=20
must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive).  There may=
=20
have been a specific circumstance where this would blow up and am pretty=20
sure that it affected 3.x and earlier.

Simple enough to play it safe.


Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net
Systems/Network Administrator
FreeBSD - the power to serve



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