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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: few ideas for zfsloader (boot environments)
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on 29/04/2010 23:56 Navdeep Parhar said the following:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:29:58PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> BTW, it's already possible to use FreeBSD+ZFS+GRUB and have this ability (in some
>> form).  But it would great to have that "natively".
>>
>> Couple of useful links:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/GRUB2FreeBSDZFS
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15161.html
>> Thanks to Navdeep for the GRUB work!
>>
>> BTW, Navdeep, was there any progress on your grub+zfsloader patch?
>> Or GRUB folks plainly refused it?
> 
> It's all in the email thread that you pointed out.  I got the impression
> from the reply that they don't have chainloading high in their priority
> list.  But the patch has not been explicitly refused either.  Those
> interested in this functionality should consider asking the GRUB folks
> to include it.

I see.
Perhaps, we could use your patch in FreeBSD port of GRUB for time being.
Oh, hey, we don't have a port for GRUB2 yet? :-)
I think we should create it.

-- 
Andriy Gapon