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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2005 22:41:10 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs?
Message-ID:  <428BA866.1050501@incubus.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050518202836.GA82926@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <1472.172.16.0.199.1116447692.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050518202836.GA82926@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:

> The next release should:
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v
[...]

Obviously the Right Way of doing such things is to move this into the
2nd stage boot loader... I can't think of any reason (except quick
hackery) why this hasn't been done that way.  I mean, one could retain a
simple choice of which disk/partition to boot in the 1st stage (to cover
all eventualities), and maybe hide it by having to hit a key, and do the
real menu in the 2nd stage, perhaps integrated with the kernel options
boot menu.

mkb.



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