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aout support almost working now
From: |
walt |
Subject: |
aout support almost working now |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:23:14 -0800 |
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Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008020604) |
With Bean's last two commits I can almost replace legacy with grub2
at least on x86. I have still one problem with the aout support that
Bean posted as a patch on Jan 27.
Using legacy, which loads the FreeBSD /boot/loader as the 'kernel',
loader then reads its config files from the /boot directory so it
knows what parameters to pass to the real kernel and also what menu
items to show the user.
Using grub2 with Bean's aout patch, I can load /boot/loader and
then boot it successfully, but it seems that 'loader' can't find
its config files in the /boot directory. This is what it prints:
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes,
defaulting to disk0: can't load "kernel".
At least on my machine, disk0 is the floppy drive and loader does
actually go to try to read it before printing the error messages
I listed, and then it drops to its interactive prompt.
By examining the loader's variables it's clear that it never found
its usual config files in /boot.
BTW, I did set 'root' and 'prefix' to point at the correct partition
before booting the loader.
Any ideas what else to try?
- aout support almost working now,
walt <=