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, presumably, other boot loaders) to boot it, or if it's just that
> > the OpenBSD people don't know what needs to change.
> 
> I'd like to hear it from OpenBSD/i386 people (architecture is important
> here, other architectures are not supported by GRUB).
> 
> I think that the answer will be - we don't want to rely on third-party
> sources and standards as we have something that works well and something
> that we can modify at our will.

I'm quite sure the issue is, people are posting to the mailing lists
who want GRUB support, but none of them have supplied workable
patches yet.  I looked for one in your posting, but didn't see it -- 
maybe you forgot to attach it?

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