On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote: > So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just > create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I > seemed so close when I ran "boot hd0a:/bsd -a" at the boot prompt that I > thought I was missing something in the documentation...
The boot prompt is the boot loader not the kernel. With your command, you're telling the boot loader to load the kernel on hd0a:/ called bsd. That's not the same as booting a kernel on one drive and using a different drive for the root partition, which is what you asked for. In Linux parlance, this is having grub on /dev/hda but linux on /dev/hdc1, which works without needing a separate /boot partition. Doug.
