On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:05:57 -0500
Bryan Steele <bry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:41:48PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> Alexei Malinin:
>> 
>> > If the base system supported multi-booting in MBR would the community be
>> > interested in it?
>> 
>> It should be easy to adapt FreeBSD's boot0.  I don't remember any
>> demand for it, and now MBR is on its way out...
>> 
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/stand/i386/boot0/boot0.S
>> 
>> boot0 + boot0cfg might be something for the ports tree.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de
> 
> OpenBSD's boot(8) already supports multi-boot (chainloading PBR), see
> the "machine boot" command, note that this is different from "boot".
> 
> http://man.openbsd.org/man8/amd64/boot.8#COMMANDS
> 
> There's no support for this in efiboot, but with that you can instead
> use an UEFI shell, or some other EFI loader, like rEFInd.

Also we can use "machine exit".  This leads most firware invoke next boot 
loader.

--yasuoka

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