From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 13:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E7937BCEF for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA23487; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:54:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:54:13 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Cc: Johan Karlsson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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