Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:24:37 +0200 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <008b01c0354b$f2820340$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org>
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> "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. > Is it possible to boot from very large disks? If not, then somebody might want to have a small /boot and the entire rest of the disk as / Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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