Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:16:06PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
> The error cannot be found in the sourcecode.  Can you provide the
> *exact* error?  Providing a kernel might help as well.

He did:  "free magic is broken at 0x5cb60: 0xbb<etc>"

Memory corruption, it seems.

> Read how the loader should work (*BSD documents), get a test kernel,
> write a loader and see if it works.  Possibly on qemu, dprintf helps a
> lot for debugging.

Actually, it's a multiboot image.  I tested it with GRUB Legacy:

  http://people.debian.org/~rmh/grub/multiboot_netbsd.gz

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