Re: Want BSD hackers

2001-12-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:06:29 +0100 (CET), Mark Kettenis wrote: 1. Is it acceptable to depend on the user specifying the proper kernel type? Yes, only when there is no way to detect which type automatically. In this case, that's obligate, though I don't like that. 2. Is it acceptable to

Re: Grub support for NetBSD

2001-12-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At 27 Dec 2001 12:37:17 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Patch #2 should be integrateable right away. Patch #1 will, of course, change behavior on other platforms too. Ideally we'd have a configure switch for default bootloader directory or some such. Agreed. I will add such an option to

Re: Grub support for NetBSD

2001-12-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:08:57 +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. I will add such an option to configure. Also, I will add a trick that detects which directory GRUB should use by default. After all, I didn't add any configure option. Instead, I just added code that sets

Re: Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

2001-12-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:26:51 -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote: However, the really confusing or disturbing thing is that it sometimes work perfectly fine and completely boots from this partition, yet sometimes doesn't work and fails with the above message. And, worse, try as I might I can't find

Re: WinNT 4, sp6 won't shutdown when loaded with GRUB

2001-12-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:57:18 -0800, Ian Halsema wrote: This appears to be the same problem noted previously with win2k shutdown. Is there any outlook as to when this problem will be fixed? Does it happen even with the CVS version? Thanks, Okuji