On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:27:37PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: > Hello Shigeya-san, > > --- Shigeya Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What kind of help do you need? > > Rewrite of the code to boot up NetBSD. NetBSD changed the boot procedure at a > certain version (I don't remember well), so GRUB cannot boot NetBSD directly > any longer. This is not very important for oridnary users, because GRUB still > can chainload the boot loader of NetBSD, but this is critical for diskless > users.
I believe this is not true currently. For NetBSD 1.6.1 GRUB was able to boot via: kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd There are other needs for GRUB to support *BSD better, and to keep supporting them in the future. UFS2 would be nice for example, since FreeBSD 5.1 or newer come with UFS2 by default and other *BSD might adopt it at some point. There was someone working on UFS2 for GRUB, but it seems development is stalled. Would you like to work on this? Okuji, is UFS2 ok to go for 0.9x? Note that FreeBSD 5.1 or newer default installs are not supported without it. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
