Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 16:28:33 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-booting/triple-booting FreeBSD under UEFI Message-ID: <20200920162833.433a14ce.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200920035310.72276666@archlinux> References: <DB8PR06MB64421AFD5B11F7674E48CBAAF63C0@DB8PR06MB6442.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> <20200919180814.00005391@seibercom.net> <20200920035310.72276666@archlinux>
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 03:53:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > A business technology news website spreading inaccurate news isn't > required to get informed about known vulnerabilities. If they aren't even able to get (or interested in getting) the terminology correct... if I remember correctly, what GRUB does is called a "boot manager" (thing that usually interactively selects from different operating systems to boot, or configures the boot of one operating system, by setting boot parameters or kernel options). GRUB does this even in Linux-only installations. A boot loader can be a standard MBR, without any interactivity, that loads an operating system. This is the typical situation on systems running FreeBSD exclusively. Or is there a different definition or consensus of the words? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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