Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:33:56 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptboot and zfsboot Message-ID: <201206211433.56632.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206210755280.70177@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206201352300.64840@wonkity.com> <201206210755.21402.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206210755280.70177@wonkity.com>
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On Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:38:09 am Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:59:54 pm Warren Block wrote: > >> We have no man pages for gptboot or zfsboot. Are the details of how > >> they work covered anywhere other than the source? There's a need for > >> these. > >> > >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32807 > >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32886 > > > > Note that there is no boot2(8) manpage either. Instead there is a boot(8) > > manpage. I do think boot(8) does not currently handle gptboot and zfsboot (it > > should be fairly easy to update it for gptboot), but that is the right place > > to document these I believe. > > boot(8) is kind of written around the standad boot1/boot2. It will need > a rewrite to handle the others. See the Files and Diagnostics sections > for what I mean; those are going to be different for each of the > different types. There ought to be boot2.8, gptboot.8, and zfsboot.8 > links to that page, too. > > That's all doable, but it seems like a fair amount of work to combine > disparate things that would be better separately. > > So maybe we should split the boot2 information out into boot2(8), create > a relatively-trivial gptboot(8) and a possibly-not-so-trivial > zfsboot(8). gptboot is very similar to boot2 (both use /boot.config for example with mostly similar syntax (gptboot uses ad0pX vs ad0sXa in boot2). zfsboot is quite different and probably warrants a separate page. -- John Baldwin
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