From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJ3IO-0001Td-Pj for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:55:20 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJ3IM-0001TY-Lq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:55:18 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJ3IL-0001TM-I8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:55:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJ3IL-0001TJ-EM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:55:17 -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 1JJ3IK-0002je-Fh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:55:17 -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 1JJ3I6-00052R-PF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:55:04 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJ3Gb-0002yw-Or for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:53:29 +0100 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:53:29 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080127085329.GA11381@thorin> References: <87myqvzkqk.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080124143306.GB8248@thorin> <20080124145317.GA9385@thorin> <1201193272.334.2.camel@k9.localnet> <20080124171206.GA1515@thorin> <1201382697.541.11.camel@k9.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1201382697.541.11.camel@k9.localnet> 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: Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (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: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:55:18 -0000 On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:24:57PM -0800, walt wrote: > > Yes! I just discovered that I can multiboot the netbsd kernel off > of a FAT32 fs or even an NTFS fs, but *not* off of a UFS fs :o/ > > Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of > reading or loading it from the UFS fs. I can read small text files > from a UFS fs, however, so I'm thinking maybe this has something to > do with the size of the netbsd kernel? 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. Bean, IIRC you planned add something similar. Is this feature useful to you? -- 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 /.)