Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:39:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <14823.18636.646339.740562@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev writes: > "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. Since you implied a question... This is a standard setup for Linux, so Linux people dealing with problems with the root file system try and make it work in -stable (with no luck). The best example would be to make /boot one file system so you can get vinum loaded and running, then have everything else on a vinum disk. This minimizes the set of things you don't have on vinum. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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