gptboot and zfsboot

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 21 12:22:05 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:59:54 pm Warren Block wrote:
> We have no man pages for gptboot or zfsboot.  Are the details of how 
> they work covered anywhere other than the source?  There's a need for 
> these.
> 
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32807
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32886

Note that there is no boot2(8) manpage either.  Instead there is a boot(8) 
manpage.  I do think boot(8) does not currently handle gptboot and zfsboot (it 
should be fairly easy to update it for gptboot), but that is the right place 
to document these I believe.

-- 
John Baldwin



More information about the freebsd-doc mailing list