From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 25 16:30:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6C437B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12622; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:30:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1Q0UKY02169; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:30:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15482.55068.46909.186867@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:30:20 -0500 (EST) To: Don Cc: yvictorovich@optima-hyper.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Problem booting Alpha AS1000A In-Reply-To: References: <15482.54141.628252.60192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don writes: > > / MUST BE FIRST. > Is there any reason you would not put / first? > > I have actually never seen it done any other way. > > -Don I'd never consider doing it any other way, either. However, some people put swap first on the theory that the logical beginning of the disk is faster & they want swap to be quick. In fact, I think that may be why swap is traditionally second in a BSD layout. We could probably fix the loader to be able to read the partition table and figure out where / is, but I'm certainly not motivated to invest any time in making such a change. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message