Re: Default MBR boot "manager"

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:22:20 -0800
On 11/11/13, 1:32 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 11/11/13 15:19, Teske, Devin wrote:
>> Topic: Lenovo Laptops and bsdinstall zfsboot with MBR layout...
>>
>> Should we do the quick patch to change the default
>> from /boot/boot0 to /boot/mbr:
>>
>> Index: zfsboot
>> ===================================================================
>> --- zfsboot     (revision 258016)
>> +++ zfsboot     (working copy)
>> _at__at_ -764,7 +764,7 _at__at_ zfs_create_diskpart()
>>                  #
>>                  f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_CREATE" mbr 
>> \$disk ||
>>                               return $FAILURE
>> -               f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_BOOTCODE" 
>> /boot/boot0 \
>> +               f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_BOOTCODE" 
>> /boot/mbr \
>>                               \$disk || return $FAILURE
>>
>>                  #
>>
>> That would fix things for Lenovo laptops for the next
>> release until I finish up the bootcode selection menu.
>> I'd like to take my time in making sure Allan and I design
>> a worthy bootcode selection menu.
>
> This patch looks good (I don't remember why it was boot0 in the 
> first place). I think gpart automatically installs something like 
> /boot/mbr by default, so I'd be interested to know if making the 
> diff purely negative still works.
>
> On another note, I think we should move away from a selector. Right 
> now, we have three kinds of boot code:
> 1. ZFS boot code
> 2. UFS boot code
> 3. boot0

you forget network booting.

>
> Unifying 1 and 2 would help a lot -- I don't know of any reason we 
> need both except for tradition. #3 is probably best done as a 
> post-install config step ("Install FreeBSD boot manager" or 
> something), which also means it works for UFS systems.
> -Nathan
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