Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

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 
>> <emmanuel%libera.cc@localhost> 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 root=(hd0,msdos1)
>> 
>> This is good news I guess. Sorry, I'm not hugely experienced with grub
>> or grub2, but it seems like I need to try to learn it again.
> 
> yes I it is really finding the NetBSD kernel
> 
> I would not recommand booting the NetBSD kernel with GRUB2 as a standard
> setup as I could not make it work with extra paramaters ( like -s for
> single user mode )
> 
> However as I said before, it is a nice alternative if you want to
> install NetBSD from a GNU/Linux system without using install media
> 
Can you make grub2 run /boot, and hence use /boot.cfg?


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