From nobody Mon Dec 18 20:44:09 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4SvBdT1GYhz53pKQ for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:44:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfadams1963@proton.me) Received: from mail-40133.protonmail.ch (mail-40133.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.133]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client CN "protonmail.com", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4SvBdS6fCmz4Rvy for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:44:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfadams1963@proton.me) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=proton.me; s=uybe56cmdnfhrfhtdgrtl3i7qm.protonmail; t=1702932265; x=1703191465; bh=gLlZqSy6wAjYT2y8EtMWAQ+IIsIgIK/b4Frzkd4xbyA=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=m1M6Hg56QQnca945TojoexcMZZH8cq6rrbSDHKDTYc0hFchpO+iP+pmHqjIEdbWsc 3Ijem5KaqBy7KgJL4YBGQ0HK2QcmZWgVhW/rqalOEZ+SeZq86owjE0X4VBishj5IWr lqX+2XVsVko0LYBs4sr2Fs6qXU05PWMdB6TFQCSR5MalD9N7bpz3t9Jz6be6utK0Pm MvUBD3oKa7lIaQEZAnM4uMTqtOtwN4xS+vUatIQPMBle0KINOlJYgTKOCRP56p6ukO YHj+rN1IZ7wiXEbHtxgbAU/VVa60ryscm/+qDM1x2aRXFEztAkU6mqXy7zW828q1nF 3AZulIiTcSH2Q== Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:44:09 +0000 To: Jop From: Jonathan Adams Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: "The installed loader is a binary, not a filesystem, so even minor changes require recompiling." -George W. Lucas in Absolute fBSD Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Feedback-ID: 80741059:user:proton List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="------192b1c13034a143a482a7bcef97aeaa20d1d2963161b6efcbf9c75dc9ad2ef33"; charset=utf-8 X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:62371, ipnet:185.70.40.0/24, country:CH] X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4SvBdS6fCmz4Rvy This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --------192b1c13034a143a482a7bcef97aeaa20d1d2963161b6efcbf9c75dc9ad2ef33 Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=---------------------aa702a13848a53f2f8835605c5e44865 -----------------------aa702a13848a53f2f8835605c5e44865 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 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 wr= ote: > > 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) resid= es on a special partition that has a FAT32 filesystem. This article may he= lp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition -=C2=A0Jonathan ____________________________________________ "Before Turing, things were done to numbers. After Turing, numbers began doing things" - George Dyson -----------------------aa702a13848a53f2f8835605c5e44865-- --------192b1c13034a143a482a7bcef97aeaa20d1d2963161b6efcbf9c75dc9ad2ef33 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wnUEARYKACcFgmWArvMJkI6O/sbt8r3IFiEEcBGzOO9wDbcpT/10jo7+xu3y vcgAAFqSAQDxABa+WxHAShZtaAzFl9ANeGLm2f7iLCiflS0IhtumlQD/QGNH uxsa2yUxTjaBJPiJmhJutOpS0TuVfA4z4QJVBgk= =YlrQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------192b1c13034a143a482a7bcef97aeaa20d1d2963161b6efcbf9c75dc9ad2ef33--