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Re: grub/openbsd
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Re: grub/openbsd |
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Fri, 25 May 2001 14:22:35 -0400 (EDT) |
> > 1.) is there a patch for grub to work with openbsd?
>
> Please be more precize. What version of OpenBSD? Do you mean booting the
> kernel from GRUB or the ability to compile and install GRUB on OpenBSD?
Under OpenBSD 2.8, directly loading the kernel with GRUB
results in the kernel panicking with a 'boot to old: upgrade'. GRUB
won't load the boot loader because it complains of a 1MB limit.
> As far as I know, you should be able to compile and install GRUB on
> OpenBSD but you will have to change the default /boot/grub directory to
> something else, because /boot is a file on OpenBSD.
Complilation and installation aren't a problem.
> You should be able to boot OpenBSD using the OpenBSD bootloader. Loading
> the kernel directly is only supported for old versions of OpenBSD (2.5 and
> older, I believe), but I haven't been tracking the development of GRUB
> closely enough to know for sure.
Either I am wrong (hopefully) or it's broken. Unless someone
gives me a solution, I'll go ahead and patch it and then post the patch
here.
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ryan tecco
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