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 I > was missing something in the documentation... > > Thanks anyway. > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:08:08 -0800, Ben Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> on Linux, too much crap tends to end up in /, so they created /boot so you >> could have a small separate partition. >> >> on more traditional unix systems, you dont' put much in / , instead you >> have a separate /usr /tmp /home /var , etc. >> >> why not put / where you wanted to put /boot and then mount the rest on the >> second disk >> >> >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, 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 OpenBSD, and so far what I've managed to do is copy >>> /bsd to a separate partition, then at the boot> prompt I run "boot hd0a -a", >>> then specify my root partition when prompted by the kernel. While this has >>> the desired effect, I'd rather not run this every time I want to boot >>> OpenBSD. 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 to get FreeBSD working similarly with >>> the vfs.root.mountfrom= parameter, but this doesn't appear to exist in >>> OpenBSD. >>> >>> Thanks for looking into this.
I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it entirely into a "boot" partition. : 12:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 130M 35.1M 88.4M 28% / /dev/wd0m 9.9G 3.6G 5.9G 38% /home /dev/wd0h 130M 10.0K 124M 0% /tmp /dev/wd0j 1014M 417M 547M 43% /usr /dev/wd0k 253M 143M 97.5M 59% /usr/X11R6 /dev/wd0l 4.0G 746M 3.0G 19% /usr/local /dev/wd0d 2.0G 2.0K 1.9G 0% /usr/obj /dev/wd0g 4.0G 1.1G 2.7G 28% /usr/ports /dev/wd0e 1.5G 632M 817M 44% /usr/src /dev/wd0f 1014M 513M 451M 53% /usr/xenocara /dev/wd0i 130M 11.6M 112M 9% /var all but bsd.mp is installed on this rig. -- Vincent Gross "So, the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well." -- Jerome Simeon & Phil Wadler
