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Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2 |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:16:06 +0100 |
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walt <address@hidden> writes:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
>> walt<address@hidden> writes:
>>
> ...
>>> I recompiled my NetBSD kernel with the MULTIBOOT option enabled, but
>>> I still get a 'magic broken' error when doing 'multiboot /netbsd'.
>
>> Can it be loaded from GRUB Legacy using its multiboot capabilities?
>
> Yes!
The error cannot be found in the sourcecode. Can you provide the
*exact* error? Providing a kernel might help as well.
>> Do you want to work on a loader for BSD? That would be the ideal
>> solution and a nice opportunity for you to learn :-)
>
> Sure, but don't expect very much :o) We know that grub legacy can
> boot NetBSD, so maybe I can get grub2 to do the same. Debugging
> a free-standing program like grub is something I've never tried.
> How would you approach the problem if you were going to do it
> yourself?
Read how the loader should work (*BSD documents), get a test kernel,
write a loader and see if it works. Possibly on qemu, dprintf helps a
lot for debugging.
--
Marco
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), (continued)
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/28
- Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2,
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24