From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 14:00:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB02106564A for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4402F8FC13 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EFA1B46B0C; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 891BF8A03E; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:55 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:20:37 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110617; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110925082217.92E54106566B@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109260920.38230.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:00:56 -0000 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