From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 15 0:47:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BDC037B670 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17515 invoked by uid 100); 15 Oct 2000 07:47:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14825.24844.791583.474574@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 02:47:24 -0500 (CDT) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Maxim Sobolev , "Michael C . Wu" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? In-Reply-To: <20001015002453.A27355@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> <20001015002453.A27355@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:18:05PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Nope, the loader can load stuff from other partitions, even from some strange > > ones like msdos ;), so theoretically it should be possible to have /boot, or > > even /boot/kernel, on another partition (it may require to tweak loader config > > files, though), but I really do not see any reasons behind such weird setup. > Our IA-64 offering may end up having /boot as a native partition (ie, > vfat32) as their firmware understands it. Solaris 8 uses this setup. One partition of about 10meg for booting, mount as /boot after the system comes up. BTW, kudos to the FreeBSD install team. Much as the FreeBSD install may be maligned, it's much more intuitive, flexible and in general better than what Sun is doing with for Solaris 8.