On 18.01.2019 17:03, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be > read and so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, > or if loader.conf can be considered the correct place and > boot.config forgotten about? > Please, not, please support /boot.config. loader.conf could be too late > in case of serial consoles. > > I wonder, why EFI/UEFI and GPt booting (which should be more advanced) > is more limited than classic MBR/boot0 + boot1 + loader scheme :-( > > Serial console support is worse. Selection of boot partition is not > supported (as opposide to very-simple-516-bytes boot0!), and so on :-( > > > > Hi, > As an heavy nanobsd user on headless (serial/IPMI SoL) appliances, being > able to early select the boot partition by MBR/boot0 and configuring > early message redirection (with boot.config) is very useful. > Not being able to do the same with GPT/EFI is the feature preventing me > to upgrade my nanobsd image scheme. My case exactly. -- // Lev Serebryakov
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