Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:58:56 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gotchas when trying 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <20021121225856.GB1368@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021121171347.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021121220031.GB1191@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <XFMail.20021121171347.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:13:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > One question: is there any interest in just having the loader be in > the EFI partition but leave the kernels in UFS / as well as the rest > of /boot? I suppose one might would have to write a UFS driver for > EFI to make that work. I can't say no :-) I now put everything on the EFI partition because it makes ia64 less weird from the other architectures. A simple link and installworld and installkernel will do the right thing. There are other advantages as well, but if all OSes in a multi-boot environment are going to put dozens of MBs in the EFI partition, then it may not be that attractive. At this time I haven't got a clear picture of what other OSes do (except that HP-UX doesn't play ball at all). Linux has or used to have the kernel on the EFI partition. I don't know about Windows. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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