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

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Bean wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2008 4:31 AM, walt<wa1ter@myrealbox.com>  wrote:
>> Yes, this works perfectly except that I still can't read my openbsd
>> filesystem correctly.  I can list / but none of the subdirectories,
>> and I can't even read a small text file from /.  (I guess that also
>> means I can't properly read the directories in /).  Everything I try
>> gives me 'out of partition' or similar.
>>
>> Progress! :o)
>
> In that case, it should be a fs problem, what's the disk layout, how
> big is your ufs partition ? It could be handy if you can make a small
> image that produce similar results.

I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o)  I think that problem
is not worth your time or mine.

I still have the bigger problem that my grub2 doesn't work like your
g2ldr.  My version still halts with 'broken magic' or reboots instantly
when I type 'boot'.  These are bugs that I was seeing several weeks
ago and you already fixed them once, but now they are back again.

I still think that a patch or two never got committed to cvs, but I
don't know which one(s).  Could you try applying your bsd.diff and
bsd_2.diff to current cvs sources and see if it works for you?

Here is what I do:

Apply the two patches to a clean cvs tree.
./autogen.sh  [because you patched an rmk file]
mkdir build
cd build
../configure && make
rm ata.mod
./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub2 *.mod

Then I use grub legacy to boot grub2 as the 'kernel'.

Do you see any problems with the above?  Does it work properly for
you?

Thanks, Bean!