Hi,
Multi-boot is not an option here. The intention is to replace the entire
PfSense installation with openBSD. Eventually this computer becomes a
firewall with PF, so the current installation is unnecessary. But my
question remains whether I need the (U)EFI partition for that or not.
Can anyone give me some helpful advice?
Op 31-07-2023 om 14:33 schreef Peter N. M. Hansteen:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:52:02AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:
>> IF you want to multiboot, just don't until you can answer questions like
>> this yourself. Multibooting is very complicated, and requires a mastery
>> of the boot process of ALL the OSs installed. People often consider it
>> a way to "learn" a new OS, I disagree, it is a good way to get massively
>> frustrated and lose a lot of data.
> I could not agree more.
>
> Unless you are specifically interested in learning how to develop bootloaders
> and that is something that yo consider essential to your career plan going
> forward, please do not mess with multibooting.
>
> If your plan is to learn anything besides bootloader internals, please
> do the sane thing and either run the one you are trying to learn on bare
> hardware (the best you can afford) or if you are comfortable with a
> virtualization platform, use that.
>
> Multibooting will always be a painful distraction unless bootloaders
> and their interactions with OSes and random hardware is what you want
> to spend the bulk of your time on.
>
> - Peter
>
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