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Subject: Boot2 loading process
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hi all,=0A=0AI was reading through the architecture handbook (http://www.fr=
eebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html) about the boot=
 process, and something strange caught my attention.=0A=0A According to the=
 docs boot0 loads only the first record of the partition, that is 512bytes.=
 But boot2 in my 4.11 freebsd has > 7K in size -- what makes sense, conside=
ring the amount of things it does and that it links btxld.=0A=0ASo my quest=
ion is: where does the rest of the boot2 binary is located and how is it lo=
aded ?=0A=0Athanks in advance for any answers!=0A=0A:)=0A=0A- jan=0A=0A=0A=
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