Re: Multiboot a NetBSD kernel with Grub2: it works

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 9/13/11 11:03 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> 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?

The point of multiboot is to not do that.  You have a single boot loader 
(in this case grub), and this single boot loader contains menu entries 
for any OS that you have installed.

If you want to make grub2 run /boot, just chainload the partition and 
avoid multiboot altogether.