grub doesn't know ufs filesystem

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On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:36, Micah wrote:
> Some of the grubs that ship with Linux distros 
> do not support ufs.   

I'm curious as to why people care about this so much. There are numerous 
threads about whether or not particular bootloaders support UFS.

A bootloader needs to understand Linux filesystems to boot Linux off a logical 
partition, but BSDs slices are always on primary partitions. Is there really 
any advantage to going directly to /boot/loader, rather than simply chaining?