On Feb 15,  7:39pm, Matthias Drochner wrote:
>cariley_ja@yahoo.com said:
>> Some one mentioned something about GRUB not being able to support
>> NetBSD
>We are using GRUB to netboot NetBSD on at least one system.
>Works basically. It just doesn't pass the boot device to
>the kernel. (Probably other bootinfos are missing too, but
>less important.) Just use a "root on xxx" line in the
>kernel configuration.
}-- End of excerpt from Matthias Drochner

With GRUB in RedHat 9, I compiled the NetBSD kernel with COMPAT_OLDBOOT
defined, and the parameters get passed successfully.

~Steve


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