Subject: Re: booting NetBSD - multi OS laptop
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/24/2006 15:48:47
2006/2/24, Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>:
> Chavdar Ivanov --> current-users (2006-02-23 23:33:26 +0000):
> > You don't need to chainload -current any more - as long as you have
> > 'options MULTIBOOT' in the kernel; my menu.lst is as follows:
> [...]
> > title NetBSD
> > root (hd0,2,a)
> > kernel /netbsd console=3Dpc root=3Dwd0a
> [...]
> > This is the latest grub-0.97nb5 from pkgsrc.
>
> I'm getting
>
> grub> kernel /netbsd
> [Multiboot-elf, <0xc0100000:0x535f2b:0x0>
>
> Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
>
> when trying to boot a kernel, no matter whether it's GENERIC or
> GENERIC_LAPTOP or custom... Any hints?
Two possible:
1. I've got:
options MULTIBOOT # Multiboot support (see multiboot(8))
options MULTIBOOT_SYMTAB_SPACE=3D1048576
not knowing at all what the second parameter does.
2. Did you rerun grub-install after 'make replace' of grub?
>
>
> TIA, Jukka
>
> --
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>