Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd

[Bean]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 2:43 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Bean wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt<address@hidden>  wrote:
>  >>   I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
>  >>   your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o)  I think that problem
>  >>   is not worth your time or mine.
>  >
>  > BTW, how big is your ufs partition ? I have tested FreeBSD 6.3, NetBSD
>  > 4.0 and OpenBSD 4.2 in a 1G virtual disk, they all seems ok, perhaps
>  > if the disk is larger, the problem would occur.
>
>  Your instructions to load only the needed modules works great, thanks.
>
>  My openbsd partition is 7GB, but some other ufs partitions are bigger
>  than that.  I suspect that I have some disklabel conflict on that disk.
>  I have netbsd, openbsd, freebsd all installed on the same disk, each
>  with its own disklabel.  I don't know why it would cause that problem
>  in particular, though.
>
>  I'd like to know exactly how you create your virtual disks for testing.
>  I've been creating appropriate-size partitions on a USB stick and then
>  copying whatever files I need onto it.  Then I use dd to make an img
>  file to run in qemu.  It's a very slow process and I'd like to do it
>  better.  Any hints?

I'm creating a blank disk using qemu-img, then install using the iso file.

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Bean