Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 16:30:58 +0100 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Byron L. Sonne" <blsonne@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trying to fix missing /boot/loader error, no luck Message-ID: <200205141630.aa83695@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 2002 11:13:04 EDT." <3CE12980.2A6BDC58@rogers.com>
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In message <3CE12980.2A6BDC58@rogers.com>, "Byron L. Sonne" writes: >Yes, since this is a home machine I used a simple partitioning scheme; >other than swap all I have is /boot @ 256MB and / @ 18GB. I've done the Ah, that explains the problem. /boot/loader needs to be on the root filesystem. The separate /boot is not doing what you think it is and it does not achieve anything other than breaking the use of /boot/loader. When you have a /boot on Linux it is a completely different matter, because Linux uses /boot as the root filesystem at first and then switches over to the real one (I think). The simplest recommended filesystem layout is to have a smallish root filesystem and then a /var and a large /usr. For now you can just unmount /boot or mount it somewhere else and copy the contents to /boot on the root filesystem. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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