On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:44:53PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: > --- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe this is not true currently. For NetBSD 1.6.1 GRUB was able to > > boot via: > > Really!? I didn't know. IIRC, 1.5.x couldn't be booted. Someone added support > for backward compatibility? Maybe I should take a look at the archives of > NetBSD mailing lists...
No idea on what happened. But note that the GRUB documentation claims to support all *BSD. > > Okuji, is UFS2 ok to go for 0.9x? Note that FreeBSD 5.1 or newer default > > installs are not supported without it. > > The principle is that you should add a new feature only if the feature is > critical. So if you think support for UFS2 is essential, I don't object. Ok. > But, please don't modify fsys_ffs.c. Instead, create a new file fsys_ufs2.c or > something. I don't want to break support for FFS, because it is used not only > by *BSD. Is it ok to use #ifdefs in fsys_ffs.c? Perhaps a lot of code can be shared between both implementations. -- 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
