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Date:      Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:45:43 -0700
From:      Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net>
To:        "Brendan Grossman" <brendan@grossman.id.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /boot at beginning of drive
Message-ID:  <7.0.1.0.2.20060416124425.09d66aa0@antimatter.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060416194011.B590D28454@porsche.brendan.id.au>
References:  <20060416194011.B590D28454@porsche.brendan.id.au>

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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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