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Re: Anyone using the new aout support?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Anyone using the new aout support?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:29:27 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:44:28PM -0800, walt wrote:
> Bean wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >>I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
> >>  with BSD/UFS and aout.  I added no patches, and built on linux.
> >>
> >>  Everything seems to work very well indeed, except that the 'aout'
> >>  command is still not available to me at the grub2 shell prompt.
> >>...
> 
> 
> >Unlike the first version, aout is not a standalone command now, it's
> >just some helper function used by the bsd and multiboot module.
> 
> Yes, thanks!  I can use 'freebsd /boot/loader' now, and also the more
> modern 'freebsd /boot/kernel/kernel' to load the kernel directly.
> 
> Most excellent work, Bean, and thanks again.

Btw, if you feel like it, you could write the missing add-on script so that
update-grub works (i.e. like 10_linux, 10_hurd, etc).

-- 
Robert Millan

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