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Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub
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walt |
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Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2) |
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:24:57 -0800 |
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 23:01 +0800, Bean wrote:
> this is the patch, problems found:
>
> 1, the mbi structure is not initialized to all zeros, this means some
> important member, like mods_count, will contain trash.
> 2, the entry point in the header is virtual address, we need to
> translate it to physical address...
Yes! I just discovered that I can multiboot the netbsd kernel off
of a FAT32 fs or even an NTFS fs, but *not* off of a UFS fs :o/
Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of
reading or loading it from the UFS fs. I can read small text files
from a UFS fs, however, so I'm thinking maybe this has something to
do with the size of the netbsd kernel?
BTW, I've tried booting the netbsd kernel off of a FreeBSD UFS1 fs
but I can't tell if my NetBSD partition is UFS1 or UFS2 -- dumpfs
doesn't say which kind it is. I confess I really don't remember if
I have any UFS2 partitions or not.
Excellent work so far in just one day! Got any other tricks? :o)
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), (continued)
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/24
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/24
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2),
walt <=
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27