Subject: Re: Boot NetBSD with Grub
To: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/2005 15:42:49
Nicolas Joly schrieb:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:26:33AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> 
>>Hello List,
>>
>>I'd like to boot into NetBSD with the Bootloader Grub which is already 
>>installed on my Notebook.
>>
>>I have managed to boot NetBSD, but can't pass the root device to the 
>>kernel, so that NetBSD always asks me, which root device it should take.
>>
>>Grub itself says, that it isn't able to pass information to the NetBSD 
>>Kernel, but on the otherside, I've seen machines booting successfully 
>>into NetBSD with Grub (The 2.0 NetBSD LiveCD for example).
>>
>>Maybe someone knows a way to boot (with root), anyway?
> 
> 
> I have an Opteron test machine with 3 disks :
> 
> hd0    Linux/x86_64 (CentoOS 3.3)
> hd1    NetBSD/amd64
> hd2    FreeBSD/amd64
> 
> For booting NetBSD (same for FreeBSD), i use the following lines :
> 
> title NetBSD hd1
>         root (hd1,0,a)
>         rootnoverify (hd1,0,a)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Regards.
> 
Yay, that worked !
Thanks a lot Nicolas.