Kris. exactly what features need to be added to the boot process to allow what you want to do, but without using grub? On 10/19/13 3:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: > On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> On 10/11/13 12:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: >>> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/10/13 1:05 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: >>>>> I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE) >>>>> >>>>> Both problems can be solved. >>>>> The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial. >>>>> We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?) >>>>> >>>>> I can put that in, whenever. Probably at the same time as implementing >>>>> the live/dynamic BE menus for selecting the root device. >>>> yeah it always pisses me of when the menu comes up after the kernel is loaded because 99% of the time, I'm in the menu because I want to boot a DIFFERENT kernel.. >>>> >>> Same thought I had about 7 years ago. After hearing that others >>> (especially you, Julian) think the same thoughts... >>> >>> I'm happily ready to merge a patch from VICOR to achieve this. >> PLEASE!.. put it up for review somewhere... >> > Done... > > http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/forth_zfs/ > > All new code. Had to make it programmable: > > http://twitpic.com/dhv2b6 > > See that the patch adds documentation for loader.conf(5). > It also clarifies a horrible description of "start" versus "initialize" in loader.4th(8). > > >> I wonder if we can we get a reviewboard instance for the project some time? >> > Do let me know what you think. I went all-out on this one.Received on Sun Oct 20 2013 - 22:59:09 UTC
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