From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 23:26:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFA616A4CE for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 23:26:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A98C43D88 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 23:26:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1865B72DDB; Wed, 18 May 2005 16:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12EBC72DCB; Wed, 18 May 2005 16:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matthias Buelow In-Reply-To: <428BA866.1050501@incubus.de> Message-ID: <20050518162535.B87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <1472.172.16.0.199.1116447692.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <20050518202836.GA82926@dan.emsphone.com> <428BA866.1050501@incubus.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Mike Jakubik cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:26:28 -0000 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