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Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kernel memory checks on boot vs. boot time
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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