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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:57 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        sfarrell+lists@farrell.org
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD and Windows 
Message-ID:  <199804220351.UAA00315@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Apr 1998 22:01:47 CDT." <87zpheo8ys.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> 

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> Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> writes:
> 
> > 	I've been meaning to ask the entire group the following 
> > 	questions(s) about OS bootloaders, since it seems that
> > 	FBSD lacks a very powerful one.  How hard would it be
> > 	for someone who understands this problem to write a loader
> > 	that would be powerful and configurable?
> 
> how about GRUB?
> 
> http://www.uruk.org/grub/

It uses a hardcoded block list to locate the boot1.5 component.  Given 
that in the same space, we not only support FFS but bad144, I don't 
think it's that much of an improvement yet.
-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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