Re: [Pcbsd-developer] Grub

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

On Friday 28 July 2006 4:41 am, Mario =C4=90ani=C4=87 wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Charles A. Landemaine <lan...@gm...> wrote:
> > One more reason to drop the default FreeBSD bootloader, it doesn't
> > load Linux on a number of PCs, while Grub does...
>
> Shall we go for grub2? :)
>
> Kind regards,
> Mario
>
Lack of knowledge how to run FreeBSD boot manager aka Boot Easy is no reaso=
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to drop it and use Grub instead.

The FreeBSD boot process can read the kernel to load from virtually=20
everywhere, no matter where the bootloader was started from. I.e. the=20
bootloader can be on a floppy and still load a kernel from a harddisk. And =
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doesn't have to be told which kernels it should prepare for, it can read th=
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filesystem by itself.=20

Other OSes either narrow down your possible choices which kernel to load or=
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they force you to prepare your bootloader for the target kernels. This is a=
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obvious problem if you already shut down the system and forgot to tell the=
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bootloader about the new kernel location. FreeBSD's bootloader can search f=
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itself.

=46reeBSD boot manager is is using Forth based scripting language Ficl and =
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object-oriented.

I prefer KISS (Keep It Stupid Simple) way of computing.

Andrei