Re: /boot as a boot partition

[Stefan Johannesdal <stefan.johannesdal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Nikolajsen wrote:
> > Another small roadbump. I got myself a new shiny HDD and decided that since I am to move my installation over to it anyways, >it's HAMMER time for real. Time to stop testing and start using. Long story short, one eye at /usr/share/examples/rconfig/>hammer.sh and off I went setting things up and cpduping stuff over. Changed the necessary stuff and rebooted. Snag...
> >
> > ---8<-----
> > loader: not a directory
> > No /boot/loader
> >     
>
> Try deleting occurrences of '/boot/' from /boot/loader.rc.
>
> And set vfs.mount.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf.
>
> If you are working from a fresh install from HEAD this shouldn't be needed,
> as loader.rc has been changed in CVS;
> I guess we should put a note in UPDATING
> (loader.rc isn't touched by `make upgrade' as it's a user config file)
>
> Also: gpt(8) (HEAD) has an example (with note on deleting '/boot/' from loader.rc)
> of installing system using HAMMER as root file system.
> loader(8) (HEAD) describes
>
>  -thomas
>
>   
I had already covered the vfs.root.mountfrom. The thing I missed was the 
loader.rc and since I have my own boot menu I had to remove a couple of 
/boot in there too. Now it works. Thanks!

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