Re: [Pcbsd-developer] Grub

[Federico L. <flo...@gm...>]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:23, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> 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
> reason to drop it and use Grub instead.
>
> The FreeBSD boot process can read the kernel to load from virtually
> everywhere, no matter where the bootloader was started from. I.e. the
> bootloader can be on a floppy and still load a kernel from a harddisk. And
> it doesn't have to be told which kernels it should prepare for, it can re=
ad
> the filesystem by itself.
>
> Other OSes either narrow down your possible choices which kernel to load =
or
> they force you to prepare your bootloader for the target kernels. This is
> an obvious problem if you already shut down the system and forgot to tell
> the bootloader about the new kernel location. FreeBSD's bootloader can
> search for itself.
>
> FreeBSD boot manager is is using Forth based scripting language Ficl and =
is
> object-oriented.
>
> I prefer KISS (Keep It Stupid Simple) way of computing.
Haha!! I hope that was a typo!

Anyways, the FreeBSD bootloader is very good at what it does, however
it lacks a little feature which end users love, namely eye candy...

Cheers