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Bean wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt<wa1ter@myrealbox.com>  wrote:
>> I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
>>   with BSD/UFS and aout.  I added no patches, and built on linux.
>>
>>   Everything seems to work very well indeed, except that the 'aout'
>>   command is still not available to me at the grub2 shell prompt.
>> ...


> Unlike the first version, aout is not a standalone command now, it's
> just some helper function used by the bsd and multiboot module.

Yes, thanks!  I can use 'freebsd /boot/loader' now, and also the more
modern 'freebsd /boot/kernel/kernel' to load the kernel directly.

Most excellent work, Bean, and thanks again.