New Bootloader for FreeBSD 49
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from the hopefully-we'll-live-to-see-the-day-that-acpi-works dept.
from the hopefully-we'll-live-to-see-the-day-that-acpi-works dept.
Dan writes "FreeBSD Release Engineering team's Scott Long has written a bootloader front-end script that allows one to enable/disable acpi, boot single users, etc. His primary motivation was to allow users to easily disable ACPI, since so many problems are popping up these days with it. He is hoping to have this be on at least the i386 bootcd for FreeBSD 5.1 scheduled for release June 2nd, and is looking for feedback."
Re:It's not a bootloader (Score:3, Funny)
The most useful feature fo grub is the way that removing the partition which contains your bootloader makes your system unbootable. Particularly useful if you frequently install new OSes... (although I've stopped trying to find a decent Linux distro now I've installed FreeBSD.)