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I just gave the world a re-write of the boot chapter of the #FreeBSD Handbook that does away with bsdlabel and (finally!) uses gpart.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/117326574782531292
I wonder whether we can get the FreeBSD Handbook people to embrace this. GEOM was a big new thing in FreeBSD in 2003.
I see that the #NetBSD Guide suffers from the same disklabel-centrism, when it is closing in on 2 decades of having the gpt command.
@jaypatelani@bsd.network#geom
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I actually read the #FreeBSD Handbook's chapter on how FreeBSD bootstraps.
It's stuck in 2010. I'm not kidding. There's stuff in there that changed in the FreeBSD 7.3 release notes.
FreeBSD can boot on UEFI firmware nowadays, and directly from ZFS datasets. There's a gpart bootstrap command, and syscons does not use bright white for kernel messages any more.
In the meantime, the Handbook is telling people how to accidentally destroy their MBR or GUID partition tables with bsdlabel.
Do you think that we can get the Handbook people to catch up with the actual operating system, that is 16 years ahead? (-:
https://github.com/jdebp/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/boot/_index.adoc
#UEFI #ZFS
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