From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJc5w-0004BD-8v for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:48 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJc5u-00048Z-O9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJc5t-000474-O9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJc5t-00046m-IQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:45 -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 1JJc5t-0005Wx-1S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:45 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJc5p-0004CD-01 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:04:41 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-217-152.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.217.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:04:40 +0000 Received: from wa1ter by adsl-69-234-217-152.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:04:40 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: walt Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:54 -0800 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <20080127194135.GA7041@thorin> <20080127200634.GA8249@thorin> <20080128091133.GA14058@thorin> <1201531036.5105.12.camel@k9.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-217-152.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008012805) In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out kernel loader 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: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:04:47 -0000 Bean wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 10:37 PM, walt wrote: ... >> Good news and bad news. With this patch and your most recent ufs patch >> I can aout /boot/loader or multiboot /netbsd from a UFS partition, that >> is the good news. >> >> The bad news is that when I type 'boot', /boot/loader prints out its one >> line of text to identify itself and then hangs forever. >> >> When I type 'boot' after loading the netbsd kernel with multiboot, the >> machine reboots instantly instead of starting the OS. >> >> Any ideas? > is grub legacy ok ? I'm not sure what information you are asking for. Nothing has changed at my end concerning legacy. It still works, but why should it not?