tech-install: Re: NetBSD won't boot when 'a' is not the first partition

Subject: Re: NetBSD won't boot when 'a' is not the first partition
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 12/24/2004 14:43:51

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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:24:17PM +0000, David Laight wrote:

> Also you might manage to write the boot code to the start of the swap
> partition - I THINK the space is unused.=20

Are you sure? It was not with Digital Unix a few years ago... this exact
configuration was discussed on a DECUS symposium a few years ago, and the
problem was that the machine wouldn't reboot after a while.

	-is

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