Re: "The installed loader is a binary, not a filesystem, so even minor changes require recompiling." -George W. Lucas in Absolute fBSD

In reply to: Jop : ""The installed loader is a binary, not a filesystem, so even minor changes require recompiling." -George W. Lucas in Absolute fBSD"
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From: Jonathan Adams <jfadams1963_at_proton.me>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:44:09 UTC

  Welcome to FreeBSD! Lucas' books are a great resource, and a good place to start.

On Monday, December 18th, 2023 at 3:17 PM, Jop <redc3ll@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was confused about Lucas' description because he is implying there are some conditions in which a bootloader can be an actual filesystem.

  On UEFI systems (e.g. amd64) the bootloader _binary_ (or binaries) resides on a special partition that has a FAT32 filesystem. This article may help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition

- Jonathan
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