OpenBSD: Multiboot and Innovations
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TuMFatig ☛ Lazy UEFI multiboot for Slackware Linux and OpenBSD
For reasons, I have a laptop running both Slackware Linux or OpenBSD. To have both available, I split the storage space in two and installed both systems. But if mainstream Linux distros use GRUB, Slackware has an historical love for LILO; and elilo when it comes to EFI-based computers.
When you run eliloconfig on a Slackware instance, it doesn’t identify anything else than the Linux kernel. And OpenBSD doesn’t care about integrating another kernel in its own bootloader. Unless I’m mistaken…
Fortunately, UEFI comes with a way to select an operating system loader. More information about UEFI on the Wikipedia dedicated page . And I’m gonna use this lazy smart feature to switch between booting Slackware Linux and OpenBSD.
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OpenBSD ☛ OpenBSD: Innovations
This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers.