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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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