From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 09:52:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0A716A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376B343D45 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBNHq5lb018216; Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:52:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> References: <027f01c3c8a8$719c8590$6705a8c0@gina> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:52:03 -0500 To: "Leif Neland" , From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Must root be on slice 'a'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:52:07 -0000 At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote: > >Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't >boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type commands into the boot loader), you will find it much easier to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a' be the first slice in the DOS-style partition. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu