Must root be on slice 'a'?

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Tue Dec 23 09:52:07 PST 2003


At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote:
>
>Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't
>boot from /dev/ad1s3e ?

It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you
want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type
commands into the boot loader), you will find it much easier
to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a'
be the first slice in the DOS-style partition.

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