Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:42:38 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Ross Kendall Axe <ross@axe.homelinux.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot on a separate partition Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050718193532.11e22eb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507190324550.2953@purplehaze.axe.homelinux. net> References: <42DC1173.6020307@axe.homelinux.net> <20050718142635.E7170@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <42DC53BE.6040205@axe.homelinux.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050718190554.11fe1e10@cobalt.antimatter.net> <Pine.LNX.4.62.0507190324550.2953@purplehaze.axe.homelinux.net>
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At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Mon, 18 July 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: > >>At 06:13 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote: >>>It's starting to look to me as though the stage 2 bootloader and kernel >>>both want to be in the /boot directory on partition a. I'd love to be >>>proved wrong :-) >> >>I think this is exactly the case. >> >>According to the boot(8) man page, you can create a /boot.config that >>will allow you to customize things. The only catch being that >>/boot.config has to be on the a partition of the slice you are booting >>from. Normally the a partition would be / and also contain /boot. > >Yes, /boot.config does look like a bit of a showstopper :-( >I take it there's no way to get the bootloader to look elsewhere for that? I'm sure there is a way, the question is whether it's worth the trouble. >>/ defaults to being 256MB. If you're trying to conserve space, it might >>be easier to run through an install and see how big / really needs to be >>and then do a second install and customize the size of / so that it only >>has the space it really needs. (On one of my 5.4 systems / requires >>about 53MB) >> >>You may have problems later on if you make the size of / too small. >> >>-Glenn > >That's what I'm going for now. 100MB in / and the rest of the disk given >to /usr and swap. Bit of pain really, I thought the whole idea of keeping >the bootloader files in /boot was so that /boot could be a separate partition. Not sure about that...I always figured it was to keep / from getting too cluttered. -Glenn >Ross > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFC3GbK9bR4xmappRARAsL/AKCq23vmsTKiPKexsFZWF33/G38LlwCgiAh4 >wKtAoiMVJw+p2SpBoM+DaNg= >=z84k >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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