From e72f5a72fdcabd0b1361c693d1b26edb18c1d5ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:44:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about root-fs blocksize expectations. PR: 4485 Reviewed by: phk Submitted by: Kees Jan Koster --- sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 index 4f2c4e9fdb92..f9d12bbc52db 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 @@ -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 ,