Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Bean wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008 5:57 AM, walt<wa1ter@myrealbox.com>  wrote:
>> Bean wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch add a.out support for multiboot. It also support the boot2
>>> loader (a.out format) of freebsd:
>>>
>>> set root=(hd0,0,a)
>>> aout_freebsd /boot/loader
>>> boot
>>>
> ...
> i'm using the web interface to send patch, maybe it cause some
> problem. here is the raw diff file, it should be fine.

Yes, the patch is perfect this time, thanks.  I'm still seeing
two (small?) problems with aout /boot/loader.

The FreeBSD loader has a variable 'currdev' that is not being
set correctly.  'currdev' must point to the partition containing
/boot/kernel, otherwise loader will say "can't load 'kernel'".
If I use the loader interactive shell to set currdev to the
correct partition then it will boot the kernel correctly.

Well, almost correctly :o)  The second problem is that once the
kernel starts running, the console never shows the normal dmesg
messages.  I thought the kernel had died or rebooted until I saw
the normal login prompt finally appear.  Is this maybe some setting
for the console that I can change in grub2 before starting loader?

Thanks for all your time and help with this!