From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 14 0: 6: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECC8137B66F for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 38406 invoked by uid 100); 13 Oct 2000 17:39:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14823.18636.646339.740562@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:39:24 -0500 (CDT) To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? In-Reply-To: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net> <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.