Re: Booting
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:55:26PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> This is certainly true. It's a wishlist item, it would be nice if all
> free kernels would use multiboot. I've heard that grub will at least
> be partly rewritten to make some new features possible, it might also
> be the "extra environmental stuff" but I'm not sure what you mean with
> it.
It'd be nice, but I think the BSD's are going to be pretty skeptical.
FreeBSD, in particular, has a very nice boot loader. I rather like it,
it reminds me of OpenBoot.
The man page for loader.conf describes some of the environment stuff I
mentioned:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-stable&format=html
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