From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 02:46:22 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 61B0516A41C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from cobalt.antimatter.net (cobalt.antimatter.net [69.55.224.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3D343D49 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glenn@antimatter.net) Received: from glenn-mobile.antimatter.net (cpe-66-27-86-22.san.res.rr.com [66.27.86.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by cobalt.antimatter.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6J2kJIQ011657 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:46:19 -0700 Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20050718193532.11e22eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> X-Sender: lists@cobalt.antimatter.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:42:38 -0700 To: Ross Kendall Axe From: Glenn Dawson In-Reply-To: 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 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 02:46:22 -0000 At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >-----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? I'm sure there is a way, the question is whether it's worth the trouble. >>/ 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. Not sure about that...I always figured it was to keep / from getting too cluttered. -Glenn >Ross > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFC3GbK9bR4xmappRARAsL/AKCq23vmsTKiPKexsFZWF33/G38LlwCgiAh4 >wKtAoiMVJw+p2SpBoM+DaNg= >=z84k >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"