Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs? Message-ID: <20050518162535.B87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <428BA866.1050501@incubus.de> References: <1472.172.16.0.199.1116447692.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050518202836.GA82926@dan.emsphone.com> <428BA866.1050501@incubus.de>
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On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote: > 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. Then the space problem just migrates. There's a limited amount of space in the disklabel for bootblocks and I think we're pushing that. If you want pretty menus, there's a large number of boot managers available. Someone showed me one at BSDcan and I don't recall the name offhand. Even had beastie icons. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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