Subject: Re: Rototil of sysinst partitioning code
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Phil Nelson <philnelson@attbi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/05/2003 15:52:15
On Thursday 05 June 2003 03:37 pm, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Don't forget that it is not really all that difficult to make it such
> that one can load the second-stage boot from a partition that is quite
> separate from the root partition -- indeed even on a separate device
> altogether.  FreeBSD and Linux have been doing, or at least able to do,
> this for years now.  I think it's still harder to do in NetBSD/i386, but
> that doesn't mean it can't be fixed.

It needs to be fixed.  And it should be fixed before sysinst is changed to the 
point it can't produce a working installation on the old machines without a 
lot of knowledgeable intervention.

--Phil