Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-15 Thread pierre-philipp braun
> Correct. But does that matter? IIRC, only the Xen Dom0 kernel is > multiboot-compliant, and even then, it is a multiboot _module_ to be > loaded after the Xen kernel. But I could be wrong. Thanks -- that would explain it. No I do not necessarily have to do MULTIBOOT. I would prefer however to

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread Benny Siegert
Correct. But does that matter? IIRC, only the Xen Dom0 kernel is multiboot-compliant, and even then, it is a multiboot _module_ to be loaded after the Xen kernel. But I could be wrong. On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:58 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > > knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e > > Hello Benn

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread pierre-philipp braun
> knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e Hello Benny. Yes I've tested it and it works both against netbsd and netbsd.gz. But I believe this is NOT multiboot.

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread Benny Siegert
I think that GRUB2 has a special module and command to load NetBSD kernels: knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:37 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > Yolo again > > this message closely relates to my two previous ones -- on bootstrapping > netbsd from an ext2fs manually -

MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

2019-03-12 Thread pierre-philipp braun
Yolo again this message closely relates to my two previous ones -- on bootstrapping netbsd from an ext2fs manually -- and I am now and finally considering MULTIBOOT. Although I have seen some success reports with GRUB2 *1, all I get is failures. With GRUB2/multiboot and multiboot2 I get