From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 13 9:18:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E0D37B66C for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.109]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9DGK9m04003; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:20:09 +0300 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9DGI8U52616; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:18:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:18:05 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Mike Meyer , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /boot partition? References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:22:20AM -0500, Mike Meyer scribbled: > | Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel, > | does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own > | partition (possibly in it's own slice)? > > I do not think loader can see stuff in other partitions. 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. > The loader also resides in /boot. > Besides, if you can't mount / (including /etc), there really is no > point to keep /boot somewhere else. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message