Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > 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.
I think the best place to deal in detail with boot0 would be in a boot0(8) man page, similar in approach to the present boot(8). I'll try to get around to this in the next few days. It's useful that Mike's document touches on boot[012], but the loader is a big subject in it's own right -- and the one most people will want to read up on -- whereas boot0 is not even FreeBSD-specific, beyond being included in the distribution. To answer your question: yes, updates can be disabled. The easiest method at present is to define B0FLAGS (in the Makefile) as having bit 6 (0x40) set. Though a utility for installing and configuring the boot manager from the command line is in progress. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
