Re: NetBSD -CURRENT with Xen3.0.3: grub failed with Error3 and Error 13

[Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna%matfyz.cz@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:11:19AM +0100, Rainer Brinkmoeller wrote:
> thanks for answer,
> 
> but ... i would wonder because of this:
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/howto.html#netbsd-domain0
> and this:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#NetBSD

this was written before Multiboot support appeared in NetBSD.

> but i tried and get error 3 instead of error 13 for netbsd-GENERIC.gz
> 
> More important first is the error 3 for xen.gz

Try to make a small partition (probably ext2fs would be the safest option)
for the files which should be accessible from Grub?

> What i found was this:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2004/07/08/0015.html
> "Error 3 is reported when the first sector of the mbr partition (sector
> 63 here) doesn't contain boot code. This is usually added by installboot
> but it (probably) relies on the root filesystem being at the start of
> that partition."

This describes the error message from the NetBSD bootlader, not from Grub.

Pavel