[RFC] Rewriting sade(8)

[Daniel Braniss]

> 09.04.10, 11:20, "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd at gmail.com>:
> >  Ok. Or maybe since `we're here' sade needs to be populating
> >  $DESTDIR/etc/fstab, not sysinstall ? 
> 
> I'm also looking for answer to this question. It seems that all basic operations
> with partitions are already implemented. And I think about next steps.
> 
> Also I think I should make a dialog for writing bootcode. And there are a bunch of
> different bootstrap code which can be used with different schemes. So if anyone 
> can share own experience I'll be grateful.
> 
> MBR:
> /boot/mbr - standart boot record (is it needed? Is it not the same which gpart creates?).
> /boot/boot0 - boot0 boot manager.
> /boot/boot0sio - boot0 boot manager with redirected output ot com1.

correct me if I'm wrong, is MBR the only one that can be used to change the 
boot partition
via menu? and also via serial? BTW, you said you would look into boot0cfg :-)

> 
> GPT:
> /boot/pmbr - protective mbr
> /boot/gptboot - bootstrap code for booting from GPT, should be installed to freebsd-boot
> partition.
> /boot/gptzfsboot - bootstrap code for booting from GPT and ZFS, should be installed to 
> freebsd-boot partition.
> 
> /boot/zfsboot - bootstrap code for booting from ZFS from MBR, it seems this bootcode doesn't have
> a correct way (e.g `gpart bootcode ...`) to be writed.
> 
> What about VTOC8, PC98, APM?
> 
> -- 
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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