From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 19:35:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C5D37B402 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B74CBD73; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18370; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:35:13 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1F3ZoS24497; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:35:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: sridharv@ufl.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? References: <1013733649.3c6c59114e6a2@webmail.health.ufl.edu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Feb 2002 19:35:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1013733649.3c6c59114e6a2@webmail.health.ufl.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sridharv@ufl.edu writes: > Why did freebsd choose not to have a separate /boot partition like linux? any > specific issues? just curious > mail to me as i am not subscribed The last time I used Linux (about a year ago), it didn't have /boot on a separate partition either. These are just installer software default choices. During the install of either OS, using installers I've seen, you can make /boot a separate partition or not; your choice. The only reason I know to put it on a separate partition is to have certain boot files located in the first 1024 cylinders when the boot loader has that problem with the boot disk. I guess someone decided that it would be better to have the more rare case require extra steps (to separate /boot) than the more usual case (to unseparate it). FreeBSD design choices are seldom driven by newbie convenience if it comes at the expense of a normal user. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message