From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 02:34:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144F916A41C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:34:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8036B43D46 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:34:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ross@axe.homelinux.net) Received: from lucy.axe.homelinux.net ([82.36.124.90]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:35:38 +0100 Received: from purplehaze.axe.homelinux.net (purplehaze [192.168.0.3]) by lucy.axe.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C557F472D7; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:34:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:34:46 +0100 (BST) From: Ross Kendall Axe To: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050718190554.11fe1e10@cobalt.antimatter.net> Message-ID: References: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> <20050718142635.E7170@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <42DC53BE.6040205@axe.homelinux.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050718190554.11fe1e10@cobalt.antimatter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jul 2005 02:35:38.0897 (UTC) FILETIME=[8CC15810:01C58C0A] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot on a separate partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:34:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >> It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel >> both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be >> proved wrong :-) > > I think this is exactly the case. > > According to the boot(8) man page, you can create a /boot.config that will > allow you to customize things. The only catch being that /boot.config has to > be on the a partition of the slice you are booting from. Normally the a > partition would be / and also contain /boot. > Yes, /boot.config does look like a bit of a showstopper :-( I take it there's no way to get the bootloader to look elsewhere for that? > / defaults to being 256MB. If you're trying to conserve space, it might be > easier to run through an install and see how big / really needs to be and > then do a second install and customize the size of / so that it only has the > space it really needs. (On one of my 5.4 systems / requires about 53MB) > > You may have problems later on if you make the size of / too small. > > -Glenn > That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk given to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of keeping the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a separate partition. Ross -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC3GbK9bR4xmappRARAsL/AKCq23vmsTKiPKexsFZWF33/G38LlwCgiAh4 wKtAoiMVJw+p2SpBoM+DaNg= =z84k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----