From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 09:54:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8E7106567E for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:54:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FA88FC1B for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:54:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: from localhost (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA026BFECAB; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:54:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([213.34.49.5]) by localhost (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vHSzKsoRJ-4p; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tragedy.rink.nu (tragedy.rink.nu [213.34.49.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CED1BFEB8E; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tragedy.rink.nu (tragedy.rink.nu [213.34.49.3]) by tragedy.rink.nu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m279rxZF023612; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:53:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: (from rink@localhost) by tragedy.rink.nu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m279rtsC023611; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:53:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rink) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:53:55 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <20080307095355.GE90443@rink.nu> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <47D10F9D.4040603@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47D10F9D.4040603@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: vincent@netaktiv.com, tech@gitoyen.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:54:15 -0000 On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems > works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage. Uh, no. amd64 kernels rely on information that only the loader supplies, such as the memory map... take a look at /sys/amd64/machdep.c, function getmemsize() for example. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder