Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:00:51 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x separate /boot slice? Message-ID: <200508042200.51875.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <a0623094ebf178314f32a@[192.168.1.102]> References: <a0623094ebf178314f32a@[192.168.1.102]>
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On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:49, Michael Dexter wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x... > > (http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch08.html) > > But alas it does not appear to be as simple as simply specifying a > /boot during setup. This causes the bootloader to complain about not > finding a kernel given that /boot on the root partition is empty. > Presumably this is too early in the boot process to link <root>/boot > to the /boot slice given that the fstab has not been read yet. > > Any pointers on how to get this to work? > > Perhaps the boot loader needs to be pointed at the /boot slice rather > than root and a "rootdev" variable fed into a specific loader stage? > I'm not sure! Search the list. This comes up about once a month, and I've yet to see anyone succeed. Aside from "it's the way Linux does it", do you have any good reason for wanting this?
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