BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 21 00:59:09 UTC 2013


Kris.  exactly what features need to be added to the boot process to allow
what you want to do, but without using grub?

On 10/19/13 3:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> On 10/11/13 12:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/10/13 1:05 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>>>> I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE)
>>>>>
>>>>> Both problems can be solved.
>>>>> The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial.
>>>>> We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?)
>>>>>
>>>>> I can put that in, whenever. Probably at the same time as implementing
>>>>> the live/dynamic BE menus for selecting the root device.
>>>> yeah it always pisses me of when the menu comes up after the kernel is loaded because 99% of the time, I'm in the menu because I want to boot a DIFFERENT kernel..
>>>>
>>> Same thought I had about 7 years ago. After hearing that others
>>> (especially you, Julian) think the same thoughts...
>>>
>>> I'm happily ready to merge a patch from VICOR to achieve this.
>> PLEASE!..   put it up for review somewhere...
>>
> Done...
>
> http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/forth_zfs/
>
> All new code. Had to make it programmable:
>
> http://twitpic.com/dhv2b6
>
> See that the patch adds documentation for loader.conf(5).
> It also clarifies a horrible description of "start" versus "initialize" in loader.4th(8).
>
>
>> I wonder if we can we get a reviewboard instance for the project some time?
>>
> Do let me know what you think. I went all-out on this one.



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