Subject: Re: Booting to a device other than /dev/wd0a
To: CJ Kucera <pez@apocalyptech.com>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/14/2003 08:14:05
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 19:01:50 -0600, CJ Kucera wrote:

>   * wd0a - Swap
>   * wd0b - FFS, mounted on /

Why not:

    * wd0b - Swap
    * wd0a - FFS, mounted on /

Order of partitions on the disk and partition letters are independent.

Haven't tried it on i386, but e.g. my mac G3 has a small iso9660 image
with netbsd bootloader at the very begining of the disk known to
netbsd as partition 'h'.

BTW, Solaris install by default proposes to allocate swap space at the
begining of the disk, so in that case c0t0d0s1 precedes c0t0d0s0 too.

SY, Uwe
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