From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD loader
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:18:53 -0400 (EDT)
> Of course, I can scan for "OpenBSD" in the whole kernel, but what if a
> FreeBSD kernel will contain something like "ported from OpenBSD by ..." ?
Yesterday, I hacked GRUB so that the user could specify the type of
a kernel explicitly. This is a very dirty solution, but the fact that
there is no identifier in NetBSD or OpenBSD can be ignored. Of course,
the right thing is to add an identifier, though.
Thus, you can now boot a NetBSD ELF kernel from GRUB. You may do the
following:
grub> kernel --type=netbsd /foobar
grub> boot
Similarly, you can set the type to "openbsd", though there is no
difference between "netbsd" and "openbsd" for now.
Okuji
