On Sunday, September 25, 2011 4:16:51 am Thomas Mueller wrote: > Other issue is the 64 KB boot partition, which does not boot for me. > > There ought to be an option, or is there already, to omit the boot partition. > > Sysinstall had such an option, to not install the boot loader, since user could already have another boot manager such as LILO or grub (legacy or grub2). > > Does the 64 KB boot partition have to be the first partition on the disk in order to be functional? One might want to use a different boot loader, such as grub2, and what about the EFI system partition that is very different from a 64 KB FreeBSD boot partition?
The GPT boot-from-BIOS mode requires the 64 KB boot partition. At some point when we have an EFI loader we will not need a boot partition for GPT, though instead you will need a larger EFI partition. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
