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>