Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:52:03 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Must root be on slice 'a'? Message-ID: <p06020411bc0e30aad443@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> References: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina>
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At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote: > >Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't >boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type commands into the boot loader), you will find it much easier to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a' be the first slice in the DOS-style partition. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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