On 12/30/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Julio, > > > Note that, with a little patch to GRUB-Legacy, I'm already able to boot > > NetBSD > > kernels with the MB "technique". Also note that I haven't finished > > gathering > > all the info it requires, so I may find other problems similar to the > > above ones. > > > > However, I'm not sure it will be accepted by the other developers given all > > the drawbacks exposed above :-( > > New features for GRUB Legacy are not accepted anymore. And I doubt > that multiboot will be changed... > > But the good news is that GRUB 2 is actively being developed. A new > multiboot standard is being worked on. Have a look on the wiki for > more information about both. Your suggestions sound sane to me so we > can at least consider them. :-)
I'll check. I thought that Multiboot was going to be kept as it is now in GRUB 2. But if a new standard is being developed, I'm certainly interested in learning about it, so I'll look at the wiki :-) Which makes me think... if MB is going to change, is it still a good idea to make NetBSD bootable through the legacy specification? Thanks, -- Julio M. Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Julipedia - http://julipedia.blogspot.com/ The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
