Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:19:08 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Sasa Stupar <sasa@stupar.homelinux.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <439F028C.3010603@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <439EF9FA.4010801@dial.pipex.com> References: <200512130029.jBD0T11I020665@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <9CF863F9FF55D6301DA0C9B3@[192.168.10.249]> <439EF402.9030101@daleco.biz> <439EF9FA.4010801@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >> A word of probable caution (though I stand ready to be corrected): >> FreeBSD isn't like Linux in the fact that it expects /boot to be >> in / (the 'a' slice of whatever disk the bootmgr has been instructed >> to use)... so a seperate /boot will likely get you in trouble.... >> > You're not wrong. /boot directory should be on / partition. This has > come up before but my attempts to find the discussion failed :-( > > Nitpickingly, that's the "a" BSD-partition of whatever slice > (aka "fdisk partition") of whatever disk bootmgr has been instructed > to use. Thanks - I'm occasionally a tad lax with some terminology. As for the "attempts to find the discussion" ... read on... Giorgios Keramidas wrote: >See the archives of this mailing lists for reasons why it's discouraged >in the FreeBSD world. Seems I was a tad off in my earlier estimate of "within the last 60 days"... but Googling for " 'boot like linux' freebsd" produces the thread I was thinking of (the initial post of which is here): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/079428.html Kevin Kinsey -- Take your Senator to lunch this week.
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