Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2)

[Bean]

On Jan 27, 2008 2:19 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:24 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:01:49PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > > this is the patch, problems found:
> > >
> > > 1, the mbi structure is not initialized to all zeros, this means some
> > > important member, like mods_count, will contain trash.
> > > 2, the entry point in the header is virtual address, we need to
> > > translate it to physical address.
> > >
> > >     * loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c (grub_multiboot_load_elf32): Get physical
> > >     address of entry.
> > >     (grub_multiboot_load_elf64): Likewise.
> > >     (grub_multiboot): Initialize mbi structure.
> >
> > Wow, you're inexhaustible :-)
>
> Indeed!  Unfortunately I still get the same free magic is broken :o(
> As an experiment, I g-zipped the kernel and now grub2 just reboots
> without printing anything when I do multiboot /netbsd.gz.  (The same
> kernel still boots normally with legacy grub.)

don't gzip it, grub2 doesn't support auto decompression like grub legacy.

>
>
> > Btw it won't apply to CVS head; maybe it was scrambled when sending it?
>
> I had to use the -l flag to get it to apply, but it did apply okay.

maybe blank line problem.

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Bean