Stuart Henderson wrote:
I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it
entirely into a boot partition.
/etc/{master.,}passwd and /etc/{s,}pwd.db can grow pretty large
on some systems...
# wc -l /etc/passwd
118993
# ls -lh /etc/*db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel75.2M Nov
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Joseph Alten [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Seems to me we are not looking at the good direction.
I seem to understand that the problem is multi-booting, with OSes
possibly on multiple
physical devices.
It also seems that the starting point is a Lunixish advocating of having
a /boot partition
handling *all* parameters for all OSes,
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate
On 2008-11-12, dermiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it
entirely into a boot partition.
/etc/{master.,}passwd and /etc/{s,}pwd.db can grow pretty large
on some systems...
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Raimo Niskanen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate
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...
Thanks anyway.
On
On 19:52:30 Nov 11, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate disk.
I'm kind of new to
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
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:05:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Joseph Alten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a kernel parameter I can pass that lets the kernel know ahead of
time the root device I wish to mount?
Basically I'm looking for the OpenBSD equivalent of root=/dev/xxx Linux
kernel parameter. I think I managed
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