From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JTnTN-0006Bh-4s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:05 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTnTM-0006Bc-0D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTnTJ-0006BJ-Nt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:02 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTnTJ-0006BG-Kl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:01 -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 1JTnTJ-0004A8-8Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:15:01 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JTnT8-0005Wj-6X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:50 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-188-21.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.188.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:50 +0000 Received: from wa1ter by adsl-69-234-188-21.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: walt Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:15:32 -0800 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <20080224152927.GE25984@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-69-234-188-21.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008022504) In-Reply-To: <20080224152927.GE25984@thorin> Sender: news X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Anyone using the new aout support? 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: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:04 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:44:28PM -0800, walt wrote: >> Bean wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt 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. > > Btw, if you feel like it, you could write the missing add-on script so that > update-grub works (i.e. like 10_linux, 10_hurd, etc). Hm. Bean hasn't replied, so maybe you were talking to me? I'm not opposed to trying, but I don't know what update-grub is designed to do. Remember, I've never actually installed grub2 to a disk or even attempted it, so I know nothing about the grub2 infrastructure. I just boot grub2 from grub1 and admire the result :o)