Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:18:05 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <39E735BD.8BDA697C@FreeBSD.org> References: <14822.65148.853175.915459@guru.mired.org> <20001013111125.A318@peorth.iteration.net>
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"Michael C . Wu" wrote: > 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. Nope, the loader can load stuff from other partitions, even from some strange ones like msdos ;), so theoretically it should be possible to have /boot, or even /boot/kernel, on another partition (it may require to tweak loader config files, though), but I really do not see any reasons behind such weird setup. > The loader also resides in /boot. > Besides, if you can't mount / (including /etc), there really is no > point to keep /boot somewhere else. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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