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From: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu (Bruce A. Mah)
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Julian Assange writes:
> 
> http://uruk.uruk.org/grub
> 
> A fine replacement for the current boot loader, with strong bsd
> support. /usr/src/contrib?

This is kind of nifty, with only two problems I can see:

1.  The FreeBSD version of GAS is too old to assemble one of the .S files.  
Maybe it's not a showstopper because the grub distribution comes with a set of 
binaries, but it certainly made for some head-scratching as I was trying to 
make a couple of changes (see below).

2.  It doesn't currently support any analog to BOOT_HD_BIAS in the FreeBSD 
boot loader.  I've hacked up something simple, will send it back to 
erich@uruk.org when I've tested it a bit.

Bruce.