9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday, September 25, 2011 4:16:51 am Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Other issue is the 64 KB boot partition, which does not boot for me.
> 
> There ought to be an option, or is there already, to omit the boot 
partition.
> 
> Sysinstall had such an option, to not install the boot loader, since user 
could already have another boot manager such as LILO or grub (legacy or 
grub2).
> 
> Does the 64 KB boot partition have to be the first partition on the disk in 
order to be functional?  One might want to use a different boot loader, such 
as grub2, and what about the EFI system partition that is very different from 
a 64 KB FreeBSD boot partition?

The GPT boot-from-BIOS mode requires the 64 KB boot partition.  At some point 
when we have an EFI loader we will not need a boot partition for GPT, though 
instead you will need a larger EFI partition.

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John Baldwin