From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 11 2:29:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5832237B419 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3669 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 10:28:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2002 10:28:59 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020111103159.A46044@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:28:25 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Michel TALON Subject: Re: GNU GRUB folks need BSD hackers Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 On 11-Jan-02 Michel TALON wrote: > Kris Kennaway on 2002-01-10 (Thu) at 12:13:47 -0800: >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:48:40PM +0200, 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." >> >> Well, that's how you're _supposed_ to boot FreeBSD. > >>Puzzled me as well. > > Obviously /boot/loader has much in common with it, but as far as i have tried > some features of /boot/loader don't seem to work correctly, for example > trying to retreive kernels from non UFS partitions - correct me if i am > wrong (in principle it should work, from what i read in man > libstand) while with grub i can effectively load things in any supported > filesystem. It works great for CD9660 filesystems on both alpha and i386. What filesystem were you trying? It might be a bug in that filesystem code in libstand. The loader doesn't really care what fs it gets its kernel from. Are there any other bugs you have seen with loader? Have you filed any PR's? :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message