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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:51:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      sko@eth0.net
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        "'obrien@freebsd.org'" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: RESOLVED - Re: loader issues...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.10011221050350.13570-100000@comet.connix.com>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A39@l04.research.kpn.com>

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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote:

> > 
> > Works on my AS250.  Are you sure you didn't create the swap partition
> > before / in sysinstall?  It has been my experience that we do 
> > not boot if the `a' (/) partition isn't at a lower offset than `b'
> > (swap).
> > 
> This is a problem, because the easiest way to make the two-partition setup
> is to create a swap partition of 2x memory size, and "the rest" for /.
> That's the way I do it for my x86 boxes with limited disk space (< 1GB).
> Glad that my Alpha has a 1 GB disk, so I used the auto defaults settings.

This is exactly what & why I did it that way ;) 

Ahhhhh, laziness =)

-Shawn

> 
> Has a PR been filed for this one?
> 
>     Kees Jan
> 
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