Very interesting. Thanks for the information.

--
Alexei Malinin


On 02/01/18 04:39, YASUOKA Masahiko wrote:
> 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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