Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-10 Thread Darren Evans
At 14:53 09/08/00 -0500, E. Larry Lidz wrote: Pavel Roskin writes: Hello, Darren! I read on usenet that it does, you have to patch the code so it recognises A7 partition id for OpenBSD, just change whatever it expects to A7. Linux fdisk thinks that A7 is NeXTSTEP. Well, if both OpenBSD and

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-09 Thread E. Larry Lidz
Pavel Roskin writes: 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 Alas, this still gives me "bad magic".

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, E. Larry Lidz wrote: Also try chainloader --force +1 Alas, this still gives me "bad magic". Indeed, GRUB doesn't contain words "bad magic", so "--force" is irrelevant. It looks like that OpenBSD also expects some new interface to the bootloader. The idea of a

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-09 Thread E. Larry Lidz
Pavel Roskin writes: Hello, Darren! I read on usenet that it does, you have to patch the code so it recognises A7 partition id for OpenBSD, just change whatever it expects to A7. Linux fdisk thinks that A7 is NeXTSTEP. Well, if both OpenBSD and NeXTSTEP use A7 for BSD disklabels it should be

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-09 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:47:02PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Just what would it take for the OpenBSD to be more easily bootable from Grub? What's unclear to me is whether it won't boot natively because the OpenBSD people have a design objection to making it easier for Grub (and,

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-08 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Grub and OpenBSD? Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:11:33 -0400 (EDT) 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. The worst problem

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
E. Larry Lidz writes: 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) makeactive chainloader +1 in my Grub configuration and neither seem to work. The

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread 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