On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:44:39PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:05:55AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Without going into too many of the technical details, is it > > currently possible to get NetBSD or OpenBSD booted using GRUB? Or > > do these OS's only work with their own bootmanagers? > > There have been some patches some time ago for FreeBSD (IIRC), but > consider that at the moment the *BSD are not _natively_ supported. This > means that you can not have GRUB booting _directly_ the kernel. But GRUB > can chainload the bootloaders of the *BSD.
I don't know whether this method is still being maintained, but the documented way for NetBSD works [1] for me, with NetBSD 1.5.2 and grub-0.91 (I might be wrong about the version of grub): for example, from the command prompt, kernel --type=netbsd (hd0,2,a)/netbsd and in menu.lst, title NetBSD root (hd0,2,a) kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd boot [1] The manual says that there is no way from the GRUB command line to pass paramters to/through netbsd, the kernel. So there is a stage of NetBSD's boot where it prompts for the root partition, swap partition, and root fs type. Of course, this means you can't boot to single-user mode, for example. Hope that helps, Richard _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub