#define quoting(Mike Smith)
// I'm in the process of preparing a document describing the FreeBSD boot
// process in the new age. At the moment, there's some emphasis on the
// loader, and probably an uneven level of detail elsewhere. Commentary
// is invited.
//
// http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt
Cool !!! We really needed such a documentation...
My sugestions:
1) Explain a bit more how boot0 works, and which consequences could
this behavior have on another operating systems installed. For
example, say that it remembers the last booted slice by rewriting
itself. BTW: Can this be disabled ? Sometimes this is not
needed/wanted, and the only current solution is to use os-bs.
2) Update it for the last changes in /boot/loader by Daniel Sobral.
IIRC: @, # and - are gone. BTW: If variables were identified by
a $ sign, and the $ sign is now an "echo on execute" command, how will
variables be identified now ? Or have I misunderstood something ?
3) Give more real examples in the load -t section. I'd include
mfs_root and splash_image_data, for example. Or, at least, send the
reader to some reference elsewhere.
Jonny
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jo...@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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