Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:54:13 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: Johan Karlsson <k@numeri.campus.luth.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003162250310.19889-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2>
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrestøl 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 > must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive). There may > have been a specific circumstance where this would blow up and am pretty > sure that it affected 3.x and earlier. FreeBSD supports multiple swap partitions (at least one per hard drive) and I believe they can be placed anywhere on each disk. Swap partitions are usually labelled as da0s1b, da1s1b, etc, whereas root partitions are labelled as da0s1a, da1s1a, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@gtf.ol.no Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no N-2815 GJØVIK, NORWAY |+47 61139424 || +47 63874242 Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.4 & Pine 4.21 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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