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Jim Shankland wrote:
> 
>         boot2 is slightly more sophisticated, and understands
>         the FreeBSD filesystem enough to find files on it, and
>         can provide a simple interface to choose the kernel or
>         loader to run.
> 
>         Since the loader is much more sophisticated, and
>         provides a nice easy-to-use boot configuration, boot2
>         usually runs it, but previously it was tasked to run
>         the kernel directly.
> 
> If there is more detailed documentation somewhere, I'd be happy
> to receive a pointer to it.  For now, I'm in UTSL mode.  If I
> survive that, maybe I'll write something up.  Was mich nicht
> umbringt, macht mich staerker :-).

Man pages?

Though much of what was asked can only be found in source code. What
would be the point in documenting how the memory is set up?

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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