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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





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