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

[Bean]

On Jan 28, 2008 9:00 PM, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bean <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Jan 28, 2008 9:54 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 04:25 +0800, Bean wrote:
> >> ...
> >> > > > please make a small ufs image containing the netbsd kernel, i don't a
> >> > > > a bsd system at hand
> >>
> >> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~wa1ter/ufs.gz
> >>
> >> I included a small text file (motd) to demonstrate that you can cat it
> >> okay, but when you try 'multiboot /netbsd' you should get the same error
> >> I've been describing.
> >>
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> diff --git a/conf/i386-pc.rmk b/conf/i386-pc.rmk
> >>
> >> Heh.  I'm assuming an .rmk file involves ruby somehow?  The bonehead
> >> build process that I'm using doesn't turn an .rmk into a .mk AFAICT,
> >> but I'd like to know how to do it.
> >
> > all you need to do is do install ruby.
> >
> > here is a patch for ufs, it fix the indirect block calculation problem.
> >
> >       * fs/ufs.c (INODE_BLKSZ): Fix incorrect value.
> >       (grub_ufs_get_file_block): Fix indirect block calculation problem.
>
> Fine for me, if you tested this.
>
> This patch fixes this specific problem regarding loading this
> multiboot kernel from UFS?

yes, it works for me.

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Bean