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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:45:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: /boot at beginning of drive
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At 12:40 PM 4/16/2006, Brendan Grossman wrote:
>Hello
>
>I'm trying to install FreeBSD with the following partition scheme...
>
>/boot 100mb (50mb too small? Install fails with filesystem full error)
>swap 1gb
>/tmp 100mb
>/ remainder
>
>However after I install and boot, it says it can't find /boot/kernel/kernel
>
>The version is 6.0. Am I missing sometihng obvious? Does it need to mount /
>first? If so, how?

/boot has to be in the / file system.

There's a rather lengthy thread about this a few months back if you 
search the archives.

-Glenn


>Cheers
>Brendan
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