Hello Garance and all,
Given how often this topic comes up, my hope is that other users
might find these notes somewhat helpful. You had several good
questions that are probably of general interest.
For those who just tuned in, the question led to the can of worms of
dual-booting FreeBSD
While this is a reply to a private message, I'm also sending it
back to freebsd-questions. I would rather not spend this much
time writing up information for a general topic, and then send
it to just one person...
Given how often this topic comes up, my hope is that other users
might find these
Hello,
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x...
(http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch08.html)
But alas it does not appear to be as simple as simply specifying a
/boot during setup. This causes the bootloader to complain about not
finding a kernel given
On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:49, Michael Dexter wrote:
Hello,
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x...
(http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/html/ch08.html)
But alas it does not appear to be as simple as simply specifying a
/boot during setup. This causes
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x...
Search the list. This comes up about once a month, and I've yet to see anyone
succeed.
Aside from it's the way Linux does it, do you have any good reason for
wanting this?
All of my questions seem to generate that
At 12:56 AM +0300 8/5/05, Michael Dexter wrote:
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted
by FreeBSD 5.x...
I missed the beginning of this thread. Where did you get the
impression that FreeBSD will work if you create /boot as a
separate partition?
Search the list. This comes
Michael Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would like to try a separate /boot slice as permitted by FreeBSD 5.x...
I forget where you got that from.
Anyway, the boot(8) manpage makes it pretty clear that your /boot must
be on the a of whatever s you're booting, but I'm not as sure as
others
