Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:36:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010162136160.88704-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <200010170128.SAA05793@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >I could have a 40G /, and not worry about the cylinder spanning >problem, if my /boot were in a seperate (low) partition. > >I could have a / that was of an FS type not understood by the >kernel, until after a module defining the FS type had been >loaded. > >I could have a / that was on a controller for which I did not >have a device comiled into my kernel, and only loaded it as a >module from an FS type that it _did_ understand. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Garth, I think that was a haiku. -- Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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