From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 20:55:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03894 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:55:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles47.castles.com [208.214.165.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA03886 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 03:55:50 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA00315; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804220351.UAA00315@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 22:01:47 CDT." <87zpheo8ys.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Gary Kline 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