Ross Kendall Axe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 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 would have though that putting '/sbin/mount /boot' at the start of the > /etc/rc would sort that out. Surely the contents of /lib, /bin and > /sbin are enough to get you that far?
The kernel has to be loaded *first*. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
