In article <3B8FA196.4020909@earthlink.net>,
scott worley <folokai@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can someone help this poor newbie?
>
>My system is infected with Linux and the GRUB bootloader.  I had some 
>empty space and installed NetBSD 1.5.  Told it not to install NetBSD 
>bootloader, thinking I would use GRUB.  I added the following to GRUB's 
>menu.lst
>
>Title NetBSD 1.5
>root (hd0,2,a)
>kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd
>
>This does start booting NetBSD but the process stops and queries me for 
>root location.
>For Linux GRUB entries I have lines like:
>
>kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz  root=/dev/sda2
>
>None of the doc's for GRUB I looked at use a root=????  in the kernel 
>line for NetBSD.  Do I need one.  Is this why the NetBSD kernel is 
>prompting me for root device?
>
>I've never used the NetBSD bootloader so that's why I wanted to preserve 
>my GRUB setup.
>

Probably GRUB does not pass the struct btinfo * that the netbsd bootloader
passes.

christos