On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 02:53:59 +0100
Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:19:21 +0100
> "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > after some hacking days, I've finally got some code to make NetBSD
> > Multiboot-compliant.  We already discussed this here and all I got
> > was positive feedback:
> > 
> > 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2005/12/28/0008.html
> > 
> > The patch still needs some cleanup and bug fixing (specially testing
> > that several things work after the changes) but, while I do those,
> > I want to ask for feedback because the code won't change that much.
> > The preliminary patch is at:
> > 
> > 	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmmv/multiboot.diff
> 
> I just tried your patch (thanks for doing it BTW) but didn't work. 
> I've followed the instructions of multiboot(8)'s manpage:
> 
> * Build kernel with options MULTIBOOT
> * Apply patch grub-fix-addresses.diff to grub and reinstall it with
>   "grub-install /dev/wdNd"
> * Modify /grub/menu.lst with:
> 
> title NetBSD/Multiboot
> kernel (hd0,1,a)/netbsd.gz -c console=pc root=wd0a
> 
> When the ELF image is already loaded the boot process hangs.
> I tried with both compressed and uncompressed kernel.

Another problem: if the kernel was built with options MULTIBOOT,
chainloader +1 does not get the hardcoded boot device from
the kernel config, it asks again what's the root dev.