Re: Booting OpenBSD 2.8

[Olivier Mengué]

Thanks marco.

I finally got OpenBSD booting using :
title OpenBSD via chainloader
rootnoverify (hd1,1a)
makeactive
chainloader +1

But I had before to install the boot code on the slice with the
"installboot" OpenBSD command.

However I was hoping that using the "kernel" GRUB command would let me pass
arguments to the kernel.
Can anyone tell me what is the status of the loading of OpenBSD 2.8 kernel ?
Is it supported or is the "--type=openbsd" argument here but not yet
implemented ?

Thanks for your help.

Olivier.

----- Original Message -----
From: "marco grigull" <address@hidden>
To: "Olivier Mengué" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: Booting OpenBSD 2.8


> On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 01:52:54AM +0100, Olivier Mengué wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to boot OpenBSD 2.8 just after having it installed on
/dev/wd1
> > ((hd1,1) in grub).
> > I made a grub floppy from GNU/Linux with the latest CVS (GRUB 0.5.97).
> >
> > Here is the section in menu.lst :
> > title OpenBSD (hd1,1,a)
> > root (hd1,1,a)
>
> Hi Oliver.
> From here, you should be able to chainloader +1 the slice.
>
> I have coerrected weird installs of openbsd, where it didnt write the
> bootstrap code into the mbr with its native install tools.
>
> As a side note;
> Installing the grub system onto the root(first)slice of an openbsd
> slice also works, though the file /boot needs to be renamed to make
> way for the /boot directory.
>
> Cheers
> Marco
>
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