/boot on a separate partition

[Ross Kendall Axe]

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:30 PM +0100 7/18/05, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
> 
>>
>> ... I want to place the /boot directory in a small 25MB partition
>> at the start of the drive.  Setting up the partition with sysinstall
>> is easy enough, but does anyone have any suggestions of how to
>> diddle the bootloader to accept this configuration?
> 
> 
> I doubt you can on FreeBSD.  The problem is that the OS would have
> to mount both / and /boot before it could do anything, and FreeBSD
> doesn't do that.  It assumes the partition that you are loading
> from is '/', and uses that to find (for instance) /etc/fstab so
> it can find out what the other partitions are.

I would have though that putting '/sbin/mount /boot' at the start of the
/etc/rc would sort that out.  Surely the contents of /lib, /bin and
/sbin are enough to get you that far?

> I know that linux supports this, as well as some other clever
> trickery with partitions at system-startup, but FreeBSD doesn't.

I must admit, I'm not sure what trickery you're talking about here,
unless you're referring to initrd, which _is_ a horrible hack IMHO.

Ross


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