Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows Message-ID: <199804220351.UAA00315@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 22:01:47 CDT." <87zpheo8ys.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
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> Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> writes: > > > I've been meaning to ask the entire group the following > > questions(s) about OS bootloaders, since it seems that > > FBSD lacks a very powerful one. How hard would it be > > for someone who understands this problem to write a loader > > that would be powerful and configurable? > > how about GRUB? > > http://www.uruk.org/grub/ It uses a hardcoded block list to locate the boot1.5 component. Given that in the same space, we not only support FFS but bad144, I don't think it's that much of an improvement yet. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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