From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 15: 5: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dh198-236.dhcp.sunysb.edu (dh198-236.dhcp.sunysb.edu [129.49.198.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898CF37B503; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by dh198-236.dhcp.sunysb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA03994; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:04:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris) From: Christopher Rued MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14810.22497.64172.382911@chris.xsb.com> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:04:17 -0400 (EDT) To: xavian anderson macpherson Cc: BWS - Offwhite , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Bob Martin , Christopher Rued , "Crist J . Clark" , Dan Nelson , "fatboy@linuxbr.com.br" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Gerald Pfeifer , James Preece , John , "keith@mail.telestream.com" , Marcel Moolenaar , Matthew Emmerton , Mike Meyer , Mike Smith , Nate Williams , Oscar Ricardo Silva , "Person, Roderick" , Salvo Bartolotta Subject: is there a /boot directory in freebsd as there is in linux? In-Reply-To: <39DA3EC0.1DBF8E52@home.com> References: <39DA3EC0.1DBF8E52@home.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG xavian anderson macpherson writes: > there is no mention of a /boot directory in the complete freebsd. i > looked on page 230 and in the index. i have also looked on the web. no > mention of /boot. i was told that i cannot start my root `/' directory > from a vinum drive. because the kernel has to be loaded for the vinum > drives to be accessed. this should not be a problem if there was a > separate /boot directory which can be mounted on it's own partition; as > it is currently on my system. > > /dev/hda1 /boot > /dev/hdd1 / > > i have not yet had anyone answer me as to whether or not there is a > /boot directory in FreeBSD. if there is not; where is the operational > kernel located (the one that runs the system)? what is the name of that > directory (if there is one)? is the kernel just `out in the open' as i > have seen with the (default) Makefile for compiling the linux kernel? i > saw something about BootEasy being kept in the MBR; but i don't think > the MBR is a valid directory. in linux i have a separate partition for > my /boot directory. i have to, or i wouldn't be able to start my > computer! my `/' directory is out of range for that 1024 cylinder > limit. in fact, it's (my current operational kernel) on my 4th drive (i > have another [3 linux-mandrake kernels] on the third drive; which i can > `chroot /mnt' to) i am quite sure that FreeBSD is subject to the same > limitations as every other system that runs on x86 architecture; namely > that all of the boot mechanisms must be below the 1024 cylinder limit > set by intel chips. FreeBSD does have a /boot directory, but from what you have described it does not serve the same function as the Linux /boot directory. The FreeBSD kernel lives in the root directory (/). Some configuration files live in /boot on FreeBSD. So, for booting purposes it seems that FreeBSD's / is roughly equivalent to Linux's /boot. -- Christopher Rued To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message