summary : root partition

Ying He (yhe@shadow.sph.jhu.edu)
Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:33:05 -0400

original question:
>
> I have done pretty much configurations and installed softwares, then i found
> my root partion are start at cly 504 instead of cyl 0 ?
> does root partition has to be started at cly 0?

The answer is:

it should not have problems.

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Stephen gave this suggestion

> Do you think it may cause potential problems in the future?

None that I can think of - as long as the filesystem is okay
and you have the PROM set to look for the bootblock and kernel
there. ( I think that this is all done automatically when
you do the install.)

Having said that ...
The only problem is with humans - we are used to seeing the
bootblock and root partition at slice 0, and if the PROM is
reset to defaults, it too will revert to slice 0. If it was
my machine I would reconfigure it just to prevent me from
making a mistake at a future time when I may not remember that
this machine is different than any of the others.
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I think he is right. I am reinstalling now.

thanks for: oster@bial1.ucsd.edu Dave
chris@inx.inx.net Chris Spencer
spr@banjo.myxa.com Stephen

Thanks again.

Ying He