Re: GRUB2 chainloading GPT NetBSD partition

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:

>The reported error came from grub, nothing in NetBSD is going to be
>complaining about a "slice",

Actually:

% strings /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 |grep -i slice
no slice

bootxx_ffsv2 looks for a MBR with a NetBSD partition (type 169),
it will only look for a GPT if it gets started with $GPT_MAGIC
in %eax (from a hybrid MBR).

That's a hack in our gptmbr.bin and what grub is not doing :-/