On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:52:41 -0700 Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow when I originally did fdisk and disklabel, my "a" partition
> started from the front of the disk which is no good. I guess you need
> to pay special attention on these when you do your fdisk and disklabel
> partitioning? It all seems kind of hokey the way it works compared to
> other ports, but it's working so I can't complain too much.
port-prep has not that much users so not that much bugreports and bugfixes =
get back... Most users stumble over the first installation but when they fi=
naly got a running system the system keeps running and running...

> The obvious question is, can we get a bootloader which understands how
> to go to the proper root disk instead of putting a kernel at the front
> of the disk and hacking around with the fdisk partitions every time we
> want a new kernel? That would be really nice...
I suspect the bigest problem with this is to find someone with the time and=
 motivation to do this. Technically this should be no real problem.
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       Jochen

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