At 07:34 PM 7/18/2005, Ross Kendall Axe wrote:
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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?
I'm sure there is a way, the question is whether it's worth the trouble.
/ 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.
Not sure about that...I always figured it was to keep / from getting too
cluttered.
-Glenn
Ross
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