Re: fixed openbsd 3.1

[Thierry Laronde]

Hello,

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:10:56PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi first of all I am using grub 0.91, but it doesn't look like this stuff
> has been fixed yet, so don't tell me I should have known this was fixed in
> CVS or something.
> 
> I have been able to boot openbsd 3.1 by using the following commands:
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> However it prints out Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa6. It would
> be nice if a6 was recognized. BUT here's the strange part, if you are at
> the grub screen and go into command mode, and type the above commands and
> type boot, it will load the openbsd partition's bootloader, and start loading
> the kernel but the boot will FAIL...! You have to actually run the commands
> from the conf file.

There is indeed something strange between the menu and the command line
(I have experienced problems with that too; I will try to give it a
look... some day).
> 
> 
> Now quick question if someone doesn't mind answering, grub can't be hosted
> from openbsd's ffs or windoze's ntfs, right? It has to be from fat or ext2?

No. It can be hosted on any filesystem it is able to read, and if it
uses blocks description (more hairy actually) it can be hosted anywhere
(the problem being to retrieve the correct blocks informations).

Cheers,
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Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <address@hidden>
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