From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1G0-0007hG-Lz for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:32:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Fz-0007gG-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:32:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Fx-0007cj-Ct for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:32:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JI1Fx-0007cg-78 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:32:33 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JI1Fw-0000sm-SO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:32:33 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JI1Fp-0007NY-0z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:32:28 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JI1Dt-0001AW-Ac for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:25 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:30:25 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080124123025.GE2249@thorin> References: <20080119170105.GJ1341@kirkkit.kollasch.net> <20080123235329.GA32503@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: booting *BSD kernels (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:32:35 -0000 On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:21:26PM -0800, walt wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:49:55PM -0800, walt wrote: > >>I recompiled my NetBSD kernel with the MULTIBOOT option enabled, but > >>I still get a 'magic broken' error when doing 'multiboot /netbsd'. > > > >The kernel of NetBSD supports multiboot now? Or maybe it's referring to > >something else? > > I'm referring to NetBSD-HEAD, not RELEASE. I'm sure you will understand > the commit messages better than I do (search for multiboot): > > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC Really nice. Does this work with GRUB Legacy? > >What's the exact error message? > > free magic is broken at 0x5cb60: 0xbb That means memory corruption. Can have a variety of causes :-/ > >>On FreeBSD I use grub0.95 to load /boot/loader as 'the kernel' and > >>everything just works. Using grub2, I can't tell exactly what I am > >>supposed to use, e.g. insmod, module, or [whatever]. There is no > >>'kernel' command any more, right? > > > >Someone should write a new loader for that. > > Would it be better to add multiboot support to the kernel and eliminate > /boot/loader? Of course. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)