From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 18:17:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB11116A479 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83C543D58 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:17:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5FIGxYP049462; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:17:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:16:52 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060615.000300.15626.148175@webmail04.nyc.untd.com> In-Reply-To: <20060615.000300.15626.148175@webmail04.nyc.untd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606151416.54452.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:17:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1539/Wed Jun 14 10:21:49 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:33:22 +0000 Cc: darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org, xfb52@dial.pipex.com, parv@pair.com, rizzo@icir.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, des@des.no Subject: Re: Options for boot program X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:17:39 -0000 I can identify with your condition. :) Unfortunately, the early boot loaders (boot0, and boot1+boot2) are simply too tight on space to add more features. I think boot0 literally has 0 or 1 bytes free right now. However /boot/loader has a lot more free space and can be easily and intuitively configured via /boot/loader.conf. All of the boot code can be found under src/sys/boot. -- John Baldwin