From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 13 15:11:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A06F37B66D; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id AAA36737; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:11:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e9DJTOG52192; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:29:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <008b01c0354b$f2820340$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" To: "Maxim Sobolev" , "Michael C . Wu" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /boot partition? Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 21:24:37 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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. > 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