Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

Today, I heard something on the partition policy for FreeBSD. Someone said that we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice, otherwise, the System will not boot up ! Can someone give me a confirmed anwser? thanks! ___ freebsd-que

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

usr -> 6144M ad0s1f /var -> 512M ad0s1g /home -> 2017M ad0s1h /tmp -> 512M But after I finished my installation and reboot FreeBSD, it will not load sccuessfully! Could you tell me what's the mistakes ? thanks a lot ! -Shark On 7/7/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAI

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/' . another question come up : Is ad0s1d the first blocks of the disk which based on partitions layout that my gave? thanks! -Shark On 7/8/05, John McAree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Did we must put the mounted partition '/' and '/boot' in the same slice ?

Thanks a lot, I had got the key points ! -Shark On 7/8/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shark Wang wrote: > > >as I had read some partitions material about legacy Unix, I try to > >separate '/boot' from '/' for my large space on '/&#

Can't use 'su' command, after I installed FreeBSD by minimized model !

When I logon, my $SHELL is /bin/sh, but when I use 'su root' to do some confige, the system told me : $ su su: Sorry I found out the su command location with the following : $ which su /usr/bin/su Anybody help me to figure out the problems ? thanks!