Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:35:53 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: sridharv@ufl.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot partition? Message-ID: <20020215003553.B19897@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1013733649.3c6c59114e6a2@webmail.health.ufl.edu>; from sridharv@ufl.edu on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:40:49PM -0500 References: <1013733649.3c6c59114e6a2@webmail.health.ufl.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:40:49PM -0500, sridharv@ufl.edu wrote: > Why did freebsd choose not to have a separate /boot partition like > linux? any specific issues? just curious Because it doesn't need one. Linux distributions which use lilo have extra restrictions on how they can be booted; having a separate /boot makes this easier. FreeBSD doesn't need to do this, but there's no reason you couldn't make a /boot partition if you wanted to. As someone else pointed out, FreeBSD 5.0 keeps its kernels in a /boot directory. Kris --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8bMhoWry0BWjoQKURAizIAKCgKE9eecY7zt38g8E1uXgjHMJf4QCg76Wd hqXkuhFn8nPLR+SebD35xzI= =XzT3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020215003553.B19897>