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authorphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>1998-04-26 17:44:23 +0000
committerphk <phk@FreeBSD.org>1998-04-26 17:44:23 +0000
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Add warning about root-fs blocksize expectations.
PR: 4485 Reviewed by: phk Submitted by: Kees Jan Koster <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk>
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@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@ man page for possible options and their meanings.
Mount a 64 MB large memory file system on /tmp, with
.Xr mount 8
options nosuid and nodev.
+.Sh BUGS
+The boot code of FreeBSD assumes that the file system that carries the
+kernel has blocks of 8 kilobytes and fragments of 1 kilobyte. You will
+not be able to boot from a file system that uses another size.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fdformat 1 ,
.Xr disktab 5 ,
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