> > I'm working on to make grub2 work on OpenBSD to replace > > pxelinux on my netinstall server and I have this question - > > - why is there 'ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386' in our old grub? > > Try building. You get the following during configure: > > > checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C > > compiled programs. > > If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. > > See `config.log' for more details. > > *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2700 > > '/usr/ports/pobj/grub-0.97/.configure_done': @for d in > > /usr/ports/pobj/grub-...) > > *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1923 > > '/usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/grub-0.97p6.tgz') > > *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2465 > > '_internal-package') > > *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/sysutils/grub > > (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2445 'package') > > I recall finding a better explanation (or coming up with one myself) > when I originally tried this a few months ago, but I've since forgotten. > Considering that PIE broke it when introduced, I wouldn't be surprised > if some of our linking features are related.
Hmm, I was able to successfully build grub2 and I'm able to load grub2 via pxe with qemu x86_64 VM: But then I can't load 'pxeboot' from grub, here are steps: > set [...] > insmod pxechain > pxechainloader /openbsd/pxeboot alising devices...ok probing: pc0 com0 pxe![2.1] mem[624K 253M 320K a20=on] disk: fd0 net: mac 52:54:00:12:34:56, ip 10.0.2.15, server 10.0.2.2 >> OpenBSD/amd64 PXEBOOT 3.25 Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org sendrecv: short write! (-1 < 23)E bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE Menu PXEXT j.
