/boot on a separate partition

[Ross Kendall Axe]

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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?

> / 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.

Ross


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