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Date:      Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:11:25 -0500
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot partition?
Message-ID:  <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:22:20AM -0500
References:  <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org>

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On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:22:20AM -0500, Mike Meyer scribbled:
| Just curious - now that the kernel has moved into /boot/kernel/kernel,
| does anyone know how well would it work to put /boot in it's own
| partition (possibly in it's own slice)?

I do not think loader can see stuff in other partitions.
The loader also resides in /boot.
Besides, if you can't mount / (including /etc), there really is no
point to keep /boot somewhere else.

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