Comments on: GRUB now default boot loader http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=124 News, reviews and more related to the pfSense firewall project Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris Buechler http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=124&cpage=1#comment-160 Chris Buechler Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:07:00 +0000 http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=124#comment-160 FreeBSD’s boot loader actually has a ton of issues with newer hardware (SATA, USB CD-ROM’s, etc.).

GRUB is a very good boot loader, and has proven to fix all the issues we had with FreeBSD’s loader. (though I don’t think we have it working on the live CD yet so USB CD-ROM’s still won’t work because FreeBSD’s boot loader is still used)

Thus far it’s been a positive change – fingers crossed it stays that way. :)

]]> By: Dr. Avalanche http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=124&cpage=1#comment-159 Dr. Avalanche Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:15:00 +0000 http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=124#comment-159 Yeah, I was amazed as well. I always like the FreeBSD bootloader for it’s simplicity, the fact that it always works (at least for me), and it never breaks.
Had I known this before I installed BETA1.2, I’d been more sceptical, but I didn’t get any problems :) .

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