Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

> What's the latest on using Grub (0.5.95) with OpenBSD (2.7)? I've tried
> both:
> 
> root (hd0,2,a)
> kernel --type=openbsd /bsd
> 
> and 
> 
> root (hd0,2,a)

Also try
root (hd0,2)

> makeactive
> chainloader +1

Also try
chainloader --force +1

> 
> in my Grub configuration and neither seem to work.
> 
> The first gives "/boot too old: upgrade" and the second gives "bad
> magic".

It looks like that OpenBSD also expects some new interface to the
bootloader. The idea of a unified bootloader doesn't seem to be popular
among *BSD folks.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin