Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:09:12 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format" Message-ID: <4.3.2.20000316155403.00b7d740@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <00Mar17.084127est.115366@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2> <200003161652.RAA62158@numeri.campus.luth.se> <4.3.2.20000316151152.00b71550@207.227.119.2>
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At 08:41 AM 3/17/00 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2000-Mar-17 08:19:36 +1100, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> >wrote: > >Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap > >must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive). > >I don't recall ever seeing this mentioned anywhere. There shouldn't >be anything in the system that requires it. Do you have a pointer to >something that documents this? Not that far back like 4 months or so and am fairly sure it was a similar discussion here on -stable. Didn't save it, so... Was around the time of the "easyboot far into disk" thread, AFAICR. Can't be more specific, but there definitely was some discussion about not having the root and swap as consecutive "partitions" ie ad0s1a ad0s1b on the same slice. Sorry that I can't be more clear, but it was something mentioned in passing that doubtfully I'd ever have a chance of running into. 8-/ Hmm... it could have been someone trying to have swap *before* root. Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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