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Re: Anyone using the new aout support?
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Bean |
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Re: Anyone using the new aout support? |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:19:41 +0800 |
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:15 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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<address@hidden> 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)
10_xxx are scripts that output menuentry for a specific os. For
example, for 10_freebsd, you first check for boot files like
/boot/loader and /boot/kernel/kernel, if they exist, then the system
could be freebsd. Then, you output the menuentry to load this os. You
can check 10_linux to see how to write it.
--
Bean