Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2)

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:24:16AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >
> > Indeed!  Unfortunately I still get the same free magic is broken :o(
> > As an experiment, I g-zipped the kernel and now grub2 just reboots
> > without printing anything when I do multiboot /netbsd.gz.  (The same
> > kernel still boots normally with legacy grub.)
> 
> don't gzip it, grub2 doesn't support auto decompression like grub legacy.

I thought it was supported at user interface level.  Was this what you were
trying to fix before?  I recall some thread about it.

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