From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 10 11:35:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 457BD37B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0030.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.30] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Okz3-0006eK-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3DECFF.D9919AC2@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:27 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johann Visagie Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNU GRUB folks need BSD hackers References: <20020110104840.GP82461@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Johann Visagie wrote: > Just noticed this, FWIW: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/#bsd > > "We really need help by BSD hackers. Currently, almost nobody works for > BSD-based operating systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. So > we have critical problems in booting later versions of NetBSD and > OpenBSD. FreeBSD is not a big problem, because GRUB can boot it via > /boot/loader for now." Perhaps http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/#download "For now, GNU GRUB is not released publicly yet, but you can still get the test releases from alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/grub/, and the latest version from the CVS. See our project page on Savannah, for more information." Has something to do with the lack of volunteers. Also, their terminology is non-standard; for example, what the heck is "multiboot compliant", which they complain about in the FAQ? I boot my FreeBSD system from BootMagic pretty much every day, no problem at all; it sounds like a GRUB problem, not a Linux/ FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/everyone-but-us-133t-d00d5 problem. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message