Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:51:34 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel memory checks on boot vs. boot time Message-ID: <4D8A7976.5090103@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201103232050.p2NKov4g017463@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20110323200200.GA85810@freebsd.org> <201103232050.p2NKov4g017463@lurza.secnetix.de>
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on 23/03/2011 22:50 Oliver Fromme said the following: > Beware, I don't know if this is the *only* thing preventing > boot2 from booting an amd64 kernel. There might be more. > I haven't tried booting FreeBSD without the boot loader in > a long time. Probably not in this century. Kind of hijacking the thread - while we are gradually moving from mbr+bsdlabel to gpt and more, we are also moving from away from size-constrained boot2. My vision is that boot2 and loader should fuse into something more powerful that would reside in a boot partition, but with its config files on a "regular" filesystem. -- Andriy Gapon
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