From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue Mar 6 16:47: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2127B37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f270kVL02847; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103070046.f270kVL02847@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Doug Rabson , ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting the loader In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:36:06 MST." <20010306163606.A26628@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:46:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message