Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 20:57:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd with other filesystems Message-ID: <200010010357.e913vDh00964@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Oct 2000 02:28:09 -0000." <200010010228.TAA18618@usr05.primenet.com>
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> Greg Writes:
> > None of the partitions is special except for 'c'. By convention we
> > put root file systems on 'a' and swap on 'b', but nothing relies on
> > this convention.
>
> The kernel and other files loaded by the loader myst be below
> the 1024 cylinder boundary on the disk, since the FrrBSD boot
> loader, unlike Linux's LILO, can not read past cylinder 1024,
> since it does not understand how to make LBA BIOS calls
> properly.
This is manifestly untrue. John Baldwin will now hit you with the Damn
Thing.
> I have several systems, where the entirety of the disk (the "c"
> partition) is mounted as a single file system. So long as this
> is done right, such that I can tell it that the "c" partition is
> of type "4.2BSD", and so long as the sysinstall and other tools
> do the right thing, it doesn't matter to me if you fix it. But...
Nothing (much) checks the partition type. I'm not entirely sure this is
a bad thing (manifest constants are evil).
--
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