Re: NetBSD on Gateway SX2185?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:

> > Interestingly, I tried with hd1 and I got the same errors from the
> > chainloader commands.  But
> >
> >      grub> set root=(hd1)
> >      grub> ls /
> >      error: file `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/zfs.mod' not found
> >      (repeats for tar, sfs, nilfs2, minix, afs, and affs modules)
> >      error: unknown file system
>
> Hmmm. And what happends when you try ls (hd1,0,a)/boot in this case?

More interesting stuff...

If I type

        grub> set root=(hd1<TAB>

I get the following stuff:

        Possible partitions are:

        Device hd1: No known filesystem detected - Sector size 512B - Total
        size 78150744KiB
        Partition hd1,netbsd1: Filesystem type ufs1, (various fs stats)
        Partition hd1,netbsd2: No known filesystem detected, ...
        Partition hd1,netbsd4: No known filesystem detected, ...
        Partition hd1,netbsd5: Filesystem type ufs1, ...
        Partition hd1,msdos1: Filesystem type ufs1, (same stats as netbsd1)

So, I tried

        grub> set root=(hd1,netbsd1)
        grub> ls /

And it gives a list of what is/should be in the root directory.

However,

        grub> chainloader +1
        error: not a valid root device
        grub> kernel netbsd-GENERIC
        error: can't find command `kerne;'


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