Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-29 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 09/29/2011 12:54 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Am 2011-09-29 01:04, schrieb Grégoire Sutre: On 09/27/2011 01:06 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: To the best of my knowledge, Multi booting NetBSD using GRUB2 'multiboot' breaks ksyms, I did not document it I believe that this was fixed in 1.99. Whi

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-29 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Am 2011-09-29 01:04, schrieb Grégoire Sutre: > On 09/27/2011 01:06 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > >> To the best of my knowledge, Multi booting NetBSD using GRUB2 >> 'multiboot' breaks ksyms, I did not document it > > I believe that this was fixed in 1.99. Which GRUB version did you > use? I trie

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-28 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 09/27/2011 01:06 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: To the best of my knowledge, Multi booting NetBSD using GRUB2 'multiboot' breaks ksyms, I did not document it I believe that this was fixed in 1.99. Which GRUB version did you use? I tried with GRUB trunk, and ksyms seem fine (for 5.1 and -curre

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-28 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 09/13/2011 08:08 PM, Grégoire Sutre wrote: * grub2 also has a knetbsd option to boot a NetBSD kernel, which loads the kernel fine, but might pass wrong argument, as the kernel does not find the rootfs and /sbin/init. Right, I remember facing the same issue. The option -r of the knetbsd comma

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-26 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Le 26/09/2011 23:37, Matthew Mondor a écrit : > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:36:03 +0200 > Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > >> I have just posted a detailed "install from GRUB howto" on netbsd-users. > > Did the documentation you proposed get commited into the official docs > somewhere since? If not, please

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Mondor
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:36:03 +0200 Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > I have just posted a detailed "install from GRUB howto" on netbsd-users. Did the documentation you proposed get commited into the official docs somewhere since? If not, please consider filing a PR with the information, so that it doesn

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 09/13/2011 03:00 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: I tried booting the NetBSD kernel with grub2, and it works (tm) #To add IN /etc/grub.d/40_custom #Boot netbsd from First DOS partition menuentry "NetBSD on sda1" { insmod ufs2 set root=(hd0,msdos1) multiboot /netbsd } Remarks: * boot parameters li

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Le 13/09/2011 16:38, Andy Ruhl a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >> * grub2 does not need to know about labels, it needs the MS DOS >> NetBSD partition and seems to be fine with that. > > What exactly does this (what you wrote above) mean? > > Is it really findi

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
On 9/13/11 11:03 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:48 14AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: Am 2011-09-13 16:38, schrieb Andy Ruhl: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: * grub2 does not need to know about labels, it needs the MS DOS NetBSD partition and seems to be

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:48 14AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Am 2011-09-13 16:38, schrieb Andy Ruhl: >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >>> * grub2 does not need to know about labels, it needs the MS DOS >>> NetBSD partition and seems to be fine with that. >> >> What exactly

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Am 2011-09-13 16:38, schrieb Andy Ruhl: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >> * grub2 does not need to know about labels, it needs the MS DOS >> NetBSD partition and seems to be fine with that. > > What exactly does this (what you wrote above) mean? > > Is it really findin

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > * grub2 does not need to know about labels, it needs the MS DOS > NetBSD partition and seems to be fine with that. What exactly does this (what you wrote above) mean? Is it really finding the netbsd kernel here, and then booting it?: set

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
Am 2011-09-13 15:41, schrieb Abhinav Upadhyay: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: >> I tried booting the NetBSD kernel with grub2, and it works (tm) > > Of course it works :-) > (http://abhinav-upadhyay.blogspot.com/2011/05/making-netbsd-dual-boot-with-linux.html) > My use

Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Abhinav Upadhyay
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > I tried booting the NetBSD kernel with grub2, and it works (tm) Of course it works :-) (http://abhinav-upadhyay.blogspot.com/2011/05/making-netbsd-dual-boot-with-linux.html) My use case was setting up a dual boot machine with NetBSD and Li

Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

2011-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Kasper
I tried booting the NetBSD kernel with grub2, and it works (tm) #To add IN /etc/grub.d/40_custom #Boot netbsd from First DOS partition menuentry "NetBSD on sda1" { insmod ufs2 set root=(hd0,msdos1) multiboot /netbsd } Remarks: * boot parameters like -s are ignored * booting from ufs2/FFSv2 is su