From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Nov 21 14:58:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FEC37B404; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1931843E4A; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gALMwi0N057652; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gALMwutP001470; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gALMwuVv001469; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:56 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: John Baldwin Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gotchas when trying 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <20021121225856.GB1368@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20021121220031.GB1191@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:13:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > One question: is there any interest in just having the loader be in > the EFI partition but leave the kernels in UFS / as well as the rest > of /boot? I suppose one might would have to write a UFS driver for > EFI to make that work. I can't say no :-) I now put everything on the EFI partition because it makes ia64 less weird from the other architectures. A simple link and installworld and installkernel will do the right thing. There are other advantages as well, but if all OSes in a multi-boot environment are going to put dozens of MBs in the EFI partition, then it may not be that attractive. At this time I haven't got a clear picture of what other OSes do (except that HP-UX doesn't play ball at all). Linux has or used to have the kernel on the EFI partition. I don't know about Windows. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message