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

[Bean]

On Jan 28, 2008 4:13 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 09:35 +0800, Bean wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2008 5:24 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of
> > > reading or loading it from the UFS fs.  I can read small text files
> > > from a UFS fs, however, so I'm thinking maybe this has something to
> > > do with the size of the netbsd kernel?
>
> > please make a small ufs image containing the netbsd kernel, i don't a
> > a bsd system at hand.
>
> I can use dd to copy a UFS fs to a file.  Is that what you mean?  Are
> you planning to use the loopback feature in grub2 to use the image?
> (I want to test the image before I send it to you.)

yes, thanks.

btw, if you have time, please try the a.out loader, it should be able
to boot /boot/loader of freebsd, i don't know if openbsd and netbsd
use the same booting method.

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Bean