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

[Bean]

On Feb 17, 2008 2:12 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:43 +0800, Bean wrote:
> > ...
> > Anyway, i think the bsd module should be fine, here is the whole
> > patch, if nobody objects, i would like to commit it soon...
>
> I vote yes, thanks.  I can boot freebsd directly, openbsd directly,
> netbsd directly or using multiboot.  The only problem is that 'aout'
> doesn't appear as one of the commands I can choose, so I couldn't
> try it.  When I used grub-mkimage I included aout.mod -- should that
> be needed in addition to bsd.mod?
>
> Great work, Bean, thanks.

aout is shared code for a.out support, bsd module use it to load the
a.out format kernel (/boot/loader in freebsd). you don't need to
specify it directly, grub-mkimage can figure out bsd depend on aout
and load it automatically.

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Bean