Hi,
Multi-boot is not an option here. The intention is to replace the entire
PfSense installation with openBSD. Eventually this computer becomes a
firewall with PF, so the current installation is unnecessary. But my
question remains whether I need the (U)EFI partition for that or not.
Can anyone give me some helpful advice?
Op 31-07-2023 om 14:33 schreef Peter N. M. Hansteen:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:52:02AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
IF you want to multiboot, just don't until you can answer questions like
this yourself. Multibooting is very complicated, and requires a mastery
of the boot process of ALL the OSs installed. People often consider it
a way to "learn" a new OS, I disagree, it is a good way to get massively
frustrated and lose a lot of data.
I could not agree more.
Unless you are specifically interested in learning how to develop bootloaders
and that is something that yo consider essential to your career plan going
forward, please do not mess with multibooting.
If your plan is to learn anything besides bootloader internals, please
do the sane thing and either run the one you are trying to learn on bare
hardware (the best you can afford) or if you are comfortable with a
virtualization platform, use that.
Multibooting will always be a painful distraction unless bootloaders
and their interactions with OSes and random hardware is what you want
to spend the bulk of your time on.
- Peter
