At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition at the start of the drive. Setting up the partition with sysinstall is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?
I doubt you can on FreeBSD. The problem is that the OS would have to mount both / and /boot before it could do anything, and FreeBSD doesn't do that. It assumes the partition that you are loading from is '/', and uses that to find (for instance) /etc/fstab so it can find out what the other partitions are. I know that linux supports this, as well as some other clever trickery with partitions at system-startup, but FreeBSD doesn't.
I don't particularly want to go for the standard 'small / partition and separate partitions for /usr, /var, /home...' since I only have a 1GB drive to play with and judging the partition sizes down the nearest KB would be... tricky.
Create a small-ish / partition, a swap partition, and huge /usr partition. FreeBSD creates a symlink from /home to /usr/home, so your home directories are in /usr anyway. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
