DragonFly boot2 - moved out of commits thread

Oliver Fromme check+kfxr0300rsgx2zsn at fromme.com
Tue Mar 3 07:18:04 PST 2009


Bill Hacker wrote:
 > - 16K is enough space to hold a 'next-stage' bootloader with menus, and 
 > a bit of graphics (Gag is a good look-and-feel example, BSD splash 
 > screens less so..).

You might be interested to have a look at this:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader

I think DragonFly should be able to port it over without
difficulty.  Last time I looked, DF's boot loader was
still pretty much the same as FreeBSD's.

Best regards
   Oliver

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