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Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2) |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:53:29 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:24:57PM -0800, walt wrote:
>
> Yes! I just discovered that I can multiboot the netbsd kernel off
> of a FAT32 fs or even an NTFS fs, but *not* off of a UFS fs :o/
>
> Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of
> reading or loading it from the UFS fs. I can read small text files
> from a UFS fs, however, so I'm thinking maybe this has something to
> do with the size of the netbsd kernel?
I just committed a check in grub-probe that attempts to read and verify files
using GRUB filesystems and compares them with output from your system. E.g.
if you do: grub-probe -t fs /full/path/to/file it will compare and verify it
using fs/ufs.c.
Bean, IIRC you planned add something similar. Is this feature useful to you?
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), (continued)
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/26
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2),
Robert Millan <=
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), walt, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/27
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Bean, 2008/01/28
- Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2), Robert Millan, 2008/01/28
- Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/24
- Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2, Robert Millan, 2008/01/24