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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.

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