On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:10:58PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Howdy, > > Aurelien asked me about getting GRUB 2 working on GNU/kFreeBSD. There's > been much work in upstream to implement loading for kernel of FreeBSD, and > recently some polish in the installer, etc. > > grub-mkconfig (update-grub's backend), however, still generates entries > based on the single /boot/kernel/kernel instance. I hear you want it > multi-version like on GNU/Linux, and support for loading acpi.ko too. > > I implemented both of them. It's basically a rewrite of 10_freebsd.in > based on our existing 10_linux.in. It'll need some adjustments in upstream > so they can share more code, but for now you can test it already, see > attachment. > > (you can put it in util/grub.d/ and rebuild GRUB, or do the autoconf > sed magic by hand) >
I have finally been able to test it, and it works. Thanks a lot. Would it be possible to get it in the grub-pc package? Then I think we should start to think of transitioning from kfreebsd-loader to grub. What is needed for that? I think the first would be to have the postinst of kfreebsd-image-* look at /etc/kernel-img.conf and implement: - link_in_boot - postinst_hook - postrm_hook - do_bootloader Then people can start to using grub instead of kfreebsd-loader on a voluntary basis. If everything goes well, we can then think about defaulting to grub instead of kfreebsd-loader on already existing installations (d-i for GNU/kFreeBSD uses grub by default). Any comments? -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
