On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Kim Mik wrote: > Can the NetBSD kernel in one of the next releases, be in the multiboot > format? > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/03/01/inside-multiboot.html?page=2 > > Julio M. Merino Vidal made the nessesary changes in the netbsd-4 stable > branch. > As far as I know g4u uses the NetBSD-3.1 branch. I am only familiar with > linux. > Will there be a switch to the netbsd-4 branch in one of the next > releases? > > This will allow users to boot the kernel with isolinux and syslinux. > So users can include g4u in a custum iso with other usefull tools (e.g. > with Ultimate boot CD). > > The isolinux.cfg entry will look like this. > LABEL g4u > KERNEL mboot.c32 > APPEND g4u-krnl > where g4u-krnl is the netbsd kernel
Please note that recent versions of g4u are based on NetBSD-current, which is long-past NetBSD 4.x, and rather close to what NetBSD 5.0 will be. As such, I think enabling multiboot support in the kernel shouldn't be much of a problem - if you want you can rebuild it yourself to test. See the g4u blog for the latest alpha version. (Multiboot is not a new format; It's still ELF, but the passing of parameters between the bootloader and the kernel is accprding to, well, the multiboot specs, which are not what NetBSD uses by default). - Hubert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
