From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 16 14:11:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2742F37B9D8 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA16206; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:11:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-72.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.72) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma016203; Thu Mar 16 16:11:20 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000316155403.00b7d740@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:09:12 -0600 To: Peter Jeremy From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <00Mar17.084127est.115366@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2> <200003161652.RAA62158@numeri.campus.luth.se> <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:41 AM 3/17/00 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2000-Mar-17 08:19:36 +1100, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" >wrote: > >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). > >I don't recall ever seeing this mentioned anywhere. There shouldn't >be anything in the system that requires it. Do you have a pointer to >something that documents this? Not that far back like 4 months or so and am fairly sure it was a similar discussion here on -stable. Didn't save it, so... Was around the time of the "easyboot far into disk" thread, AFAICR. Can't be more specific, but there definitely was some discussion about not having the root and swap as consecutive "partitions" ie ad0s1a ad0s1b on the same slice. Sorry that I can't be more clear, but it was something mentioned in passing that doubtfully I'd ever have a chance of running into. 8-/ Hmm... it could have been someone trying to have swap *before* root. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message