Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2)

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 09:53 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:

> I just committed a check in grub-probe that attempts to read and verify files
> using GRUB filesystems and compares them with output from your system.  E.g.
> if you do:  grub-probe -t fs /full/path/to/file it will compare and verify it
> using fs/ufs.c.

A few problems.  grub-mkdevicemap generates an incomplete file 
containing only a very long list of (hd0), (hd1) ... (hd35) with
no matching device names.  I edited the file by hand to this:
(hd0)   /dev/ad0
(hd1)   /dev/ad1

# grub-probe /           
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /.

# grub-probe -t fs /kernel
grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /kernel.

It seems that grub2 doesn't detect the existing devices including (fd0)
on a *BSD system, though it works great on linux.  Oh, and I have a
FAT32 fs mounted on /c and grub-probe still gives me the same error,
so it seems device related rather than fs related.

I still have some ideas to try on the different BSD's to see if they
all act the same.

BTW, gcc on NetBSD *does* support -fstack-protector :o/