> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:52:02 -0500 (EST) > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > If it finds a bootable slice that it > > doesn't recognize, it just calls it '???' (but still knows how to > > load its boot sector and pass off control. For slices on disks that > > don't look bootable, it just ignores these and doesn't even list them > > in the menu. > > Strictly speaking, the ??? isn't because the bootloader doesn't > "recognize" the slice, but that the filesystem it does recognize on that > slice has more than one name and might belong to one of several > operating systems. In the case of NT/W2K/XP, the filesystem is called > NTFS by MS, HPFS by OS/2, and I believe QNX may use it as well. Some > sort of user-configurable name might be built in to the FreeBSD > bootloader, but AIUI that would be difficult to do within its extremely > small size. Grub and other bootloaders do this by means of user config > files and other pieces that live outside the bootloader itself, and so > don't have the size limitation.
Yah, I shaved some stuff and lumped things together rather than making it even longer and less comprehensible to the already confused person. Besides, it was beginning to get beyond the details I am totally clear about. I wish we could abandon MS (and MS oriented BOIS) and make a clean start on bootup, memory use, disk addressing, etc. ////jerry > > Jud > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
