Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 09:02:29 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rem*ve bootloader Message-ID: <15094.43765.73666.198893@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <65703793@toto.iv>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:26:21PM -0500, dave wrote: > GRUB... last I used it, it wouldn't boot Linux 2.4 s=E6ries kernels u= nless > you specified a menu... sort of defeating the purpose of having the > prompt. Possibly true - I haven't tried a 2.4 series kernel. But who uses the prompt for anything but the install? > GRUB is just a clone of the FreeBSD boot loader, really. It's the sam= e > multi-stage concept, with a prompt... the only thing it adds is nativ= e > support for more filesystems. And FBSD is just a clone of DOS. It's the same command-line concept, with a different prompt... the only thing it adds is native support for more tasks. Ok, maybe FBSD adds a bit more than that. But so does GRUB. A user-editable boot menu in the file system, for instance. The ability to boot Windows off the second disk. The ability to break your boot by defragging the file system the menu is on. Whoops. GRUB has a much bigger second stage. That adds a lot of capabilities that aren't in boot0. But at some level, all multisystem boot loaders are the same - a menu and code to boot the users selection. =09<mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>=09=09=09http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more inform= ation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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