Subject: Re: Using GRUB bootloader question
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/03/2001 14:51:22
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:42:35PM -0800, Space Case wrote:

 > I now have my system doing multi-boot into Win2K, Linux and NetBSD.
 > Mostly it works OK, except the NetBSD boot stops at this point:
 > 
 > [messages elided...]
 > boot device: <unknown>
 > root device:
 > 
 > 
 > The GRUB menu entry currently looks like this:

Why use GRUB?  NetBSD has its own boot selector, and I use it to
boot a variety of OSs.

GRUB is doomed to never work properly -- it doesn't implement the bootinfo
mechanism that NetBSD uses.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>