Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:46:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting the loader Message-ID: <200103070046.f270kVL02847@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:36:06 MST." <20010306163606.A26628@panzer.kdm.org>
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> Any idea whether FreeBSD will have to use the same scheme of having a DOS
> partition in order to run the loader?
You have to have a FAT partition; that's required by EFI. My initial
proposal was to have a boot2 equivalent living there, so that the loader
itself was still in the UFS filesystem.
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