Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:41:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Pfeifer <jan.pfeifer@yahoo.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot2 loading process Message-ID: <20061014164101.8507.qmail@web52113.mail.yahoo.com>
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hi all,=0A=0AI was reading through the architecture handbook (http://www.fr= eebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/book.html) about the boot= process, and something strange caught my attention.=0A=0A According to the= docs boot0 loads only the first record of the partition, that is 512bytes.= But boot2 in my 4.11 freebsd has > 7K in size -- what makes sense, conside= ring the amount of things it does and that it links btxld.=0A=0ASo my quest= ion is: where does the rest of the boot2 binary is located and how is it lo= aded ?=0A=0Athanks in advance for any answers!=0A=0A:)=0A=0A- jan=0A=0A=0A= =0A=0A
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