From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JHqmc-0004fI-Ej for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:34 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHqma-0004cs-GR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHqmY-0004aL-NY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:32 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHqmY-0004a0-ID for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:30 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHqmY-0001U8-65 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:30 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JHqmS-0005vm-G0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:21:24 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-179-184.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.179.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:21:24 +0000 Received: from wa1ter by adsl-69-234-179-184.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:21:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: walt Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:21:26 -0800 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <20080119170105.GJ1341@kirkkit.kollasch.net> <20080123235329.GA32503@thorin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-179-184.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008012305) In-Reply-To: <20080123235329.GA32503@thorin> Sender: news X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: 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 01:21:32 -0000 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 > What's the exact error message? free magic is broken at 0x5cb60: 0xbb > >> 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?