bootloader installation

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Christian Brueffer wrote:
>>
>> We really need to make installation work better. Can we include a port 
>> of Apple's HFS implementation in base? I know APSL1 was impossible, but 
>> are there any thoughts on APSL2 now? Having HFS support should also be 
>> valuable on x86 with more people dual-booting FreeBSD/OS X now.
>>
>> I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS implementation should not 
>> be too hard, either. Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode?
>> -Nathan
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> Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yar for an old hfs port from
> the 5.x days.  Unfortunately it never made it into the base system,
> maybe someone here would like to pick it up?
>   
I used that on 5.3. It worked great. But the HFS code, the license, and 
the VFS layer have all changed a lot since then. I think it would be 
best to restart it from scratch. I asked about the license because the 
APSL was why it never made it into the tree in the first place.
-Nathan