From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended
partiton
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:10:45 -0400 (EDT)
> Now, if instead of wasting their time on a fancy boot loader
> written in Forth, the FreeBSD team had just made their kernel
> multi-boot compliant, then of course Grub could be used to do the
> booting.
Sure, but it would be a good thing to enhance the FreeBSD support in
GRUB as well. A big problem is that there is no contributor who is
eager in *BSD support here.
> The real problem is that there are just too many arrogant
> operating systems out there (Solaris, Unixware, Plan9, Windows,
> OS/2, etc) that require a primary partition to be used for booting
> from.
The fact doesn't mean that you shouldn't make efforts. It could also
be very painful to add a silly workaround into GRUB and maintain it,
anyway.
Okuji
