Re: Anyone using the new aout support?

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:15:32PM -0800, walt wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >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).
> 
> Hm.  Bean hasn't replied, so maybe you were talking to me?

I was, but anyone is welcome to implement it.

> I'm not
> opposed to trying, but I don't know what update-grub is designed to do.
> Remember, I've never actually installed grub2 to a disk or even attempted
> it, so I know nothing about the grub2 infrastructure.  I just boot grub2
> from grub1 and admire the result :o)

Try installing it to disk then.

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