Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:20:37 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller Message-ID: <201109260920.38230.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sunday, September 25, 2011 4:16:51 am Thomas Mueller wrote: > Other issue is the 64 KB boot partition, which does not boot for me. > > There ought to be an option, or is there already, to omit the boot partition. > > Sysinstall had such an option, to not install the boot loader, since user could already have another boot manager such as LILO or grub (legacy or grub2). > > Does the 64 KB boot partition have to be the first partition on the disk in order to be functional? One might want to use a different boot loader, such as grub2, and what about the EFI system partition that is very different from a 64 KB FreeBSD boot partition? The GPT boot-from-BIOS mode requires the 64 KB boot partition. At some point when we have an EFI loader we will not need a boot partition for GPT, though instead you will need a larger EFI partition. -- John Baldwin
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