I guy here in the office claims that he succesfully loaded FreeBSD's kernel directly! If this is at all true I could ask him to show me what he did!
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:51:28AM +0000, Keith Matthews wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 06:49:07 +0900 Yoshinori K. Okuji <Yoshinori K. Okuji ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > We really need help by BSD hackers. Currently, almost nobody works for > > BSD-based operating systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. So > > we have critical problems in booting later versions of NetBSD and > > OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not a big problem, because GRUB can boot it via > > /boot/loader for now. > > > I have written the same message on the web. If nobody helps to fix > > those problems, I will eliminate the propaganda "GRUB supports booting > > NetBSD and OpenBSD" in the next version. > > What problems are you referring to ? OBSD 2.9 boots fine as long as > the kernel is below cylinder 1024. This seems to be a problem with or > without grub (although I can't test the latter). > > command chain required is > > root (hd1,3,a) # since its on the second drive > chainloader +1 > boot > > Haven't had a chance to try 3.0 yet. > > > Having said which Marc Espie is admanant there are problems due to > certain parameters not being passed properly. I'm trying to look at it > but my 386 assembler skills are pretty non-existant.
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