Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:20:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199601312020.NAA10397@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5208.823117151@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 96 08:39:11 pm
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> Exactly. It works with the limitations stipulated. The limitations stipulated are annoying. 8-(. > One way to do this on a 1024+ cyl disk is what I did: > > make one slice which is only for your root & swap (100 Mb ?) Having to have the swap on the root device for local disk is annoying (as is building a custom kernel to relocate it). To get the equivalent of what I suggested, you'd have to have slice 'a' by itself on a partition. This *does* work in the most recent code, but it didn't used to, and you still have to go through contortions on it. > make another slice covering the rest of the disk. > > run bad144 on both. > > QED: no need to mess with the code. Except to not have to squeeze swap below 1024. I think the devfs is the key to resolving most of this. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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