Re: booting OpenBSD with grub

2015-05-28 Thread David A. Pocock
I've not done this since 2009, but found in my notes: # The OpenBSD section of the menu.lst config file, for GRUB. # ## You would like to use: # root (hd1,1,a) # kernel --type=openbsd /bsd # # But OpenBSD passes bios & kernel parameters with its own bootloader, # the first stage of which is insta

Re: booting OpenBSD with grub

2015-05-27 Thread Gareth Nelson
You can also use kopenbsd to load an OpenBSD kernel directly in grub, I did just this to install OpenBSD from a previous Debian install (just downloaded bsd.rd, rebooted, used grub to boot bsd.rd) --- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s wort

Re: booting OpenBSD with grub

2015-05-27 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:48:49AM -0400, cobalt wrote: > any idea on the the proper way to get grub to boot openbsd: > > set root=(hd1,4) is what i have, but i am missing something and i do not > know what. > > any thoughts would help. > > regards. > > gilles I have an old netbook with sysuti

booting OpenBSD with grub

2015-05-27 Thread cobalt
any idea on the the proper way to get grub to boot openbsd: set root=(hd1,4) is what i have, but i am missing something and i do not know what. any thoughts would help. regards. gilles