Configuration of Grub?

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On Saturday 09 December 2006 22:19, David Stanford wrote:
> title FreeBSD
>         root (hd1,0,a)
>         kernel /boot/loader
>
> Right now Linux can not read the FreeBSD disk. Does FreeBSD have its own
>
> > filesystem?
>
> Yes, by default FreeBSD uses UFS2. There is almost certainly a third party
> app out there that will allow you to read UFS2 from Linux if this is what
> you want to do at some point. You can also check 'man mount' under SUSE to
> see if there is built-in support for mounting UFS2 filesystems (though this
> is probably a long shot).
>
> Ans if it has its own filesystem how can grub read the /boot/loader in
>
> > there?
>
> SUSE may not be able to read it, but remember that Grub is independent (so
> to speak) from Linux and has support for booting *BSD OS's.

I'm curious as to why people care about UFS support, since chainloading works 
just fine without filesystem support. 

Is there a good reason for prefering "kernel /boot/loader" over chainloading 
on FreeBSD?