From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 12:25:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06948 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06942 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:25:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA10397; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:20:29 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601312020.NAA10397@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:20:29 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5208.823117151@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 31, 96 08:39:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.