Markus Kolb <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 24.07.2020 17:30, schrieb Theo de Raadt: > [...] > > non-OpenBSD bootloaders will do a shitty job of booting OpenBSD. > > I'm not going to bother explaining the situation in detail. People > > who try to go that way have already decided they don't care about the > > consequences. > > Ok. Thanks. > > Are you talking about biosboot or 2nd stage boot?
2nd. > But would it be in theory possible to program a > (1) specialized "bootloader" which is bootable by linux-cmd of grub > and > (2) this specialized "bootloader" continues with the BSD boot code? At > the moment I'm thinking of 2nd stage boot. > So going from grub 2nd stage via fake-linux-kernel to 2nd stage > OpenBSD boot... But that method already exists. Boot our MBR/PBR, which loads our boot. And our boot does special stuff. But people keep wanting to not use our PBR. Well, then they get to face the music, that Grub doesn't do stuff we need. > Part 1 should be doable. > But what is about part 2? Would it be possible or are there technical > system restrictions making it impossible e.g. like CPU operating modes > or restrictions to access the BIOS? > And so any further thinking and investigation in this way is waste of > time... We publish the source. Is that not enough?
