from Benny Siegert:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2022, Mayuresh wrote:
> > Also, can someone with grub knowhow please advise on the grub error in my
> > last post? Even after insmod of part_gpt, part_bsd, knetbsd says "unknown
> > filesystem"
> Perhaps you set up 10_BETA with the extended-attribute (ffs2ea) filesystem.
> This one has a different superblock, so the FFS support in GRUB does not
> recognize it.
> I assume the solution is to either get rid of EA support, or patch grub. Has
> someone sent such a patch upstream?
I believe there is a way, with a chainloader, to boot a partition without grub
knowing the filesystem?
I don't remember all the details, but in the days of NetBSD 5.0 and 5.1, I
managed to set up a bootable 40 MB image, then at the boot prompt set the root
partition properly along with the location of /sbin/init.
Tom
