Info about suspend-to-disk

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Tue Aug 23 12:18:04 UTC 2016


On 08/23/16 01:23, Allan Jude wrote:

> * boot0 (512b) is the MBR/pMBR
> * boot1 (512b) is the VBR (loads and executes boot2)
> * boot2 (15kb for UFS+MBR, up to 512kb for GPT, 3.5mb of ZFS) is the
> first thing that actually understands file systems. This reads the
> loader from the file system
> * loader (boot3)

Ah.  I was thinking in terms of EFI:

* boot1 (stored on ESP, which is < 200MB by EFI spec)
* loader (stored on main FS)

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