On 27 July 2014 05:19, Paul Goyette <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Jeff Rizzo wrote: > >>> I also tried to boot up an Ubuntu 14.04.1 distribution from DVD, and it >>> successfully loaded GRUB! >>> >>> Maybe there's a way to update the on-disk bootloader with GRUB instead of >>> the usual NetBSD bootloader? >>> >> >> You can certainly boot NetBSD with GRUB in a pinch... though it would be >> nice to figure out what's going on. > > > Well, first I need to get GRUB onto the NetBSD disk! > > I tried to build the grub2 package, but the build failed. grub 0.97 package > builds, and I ran grub-install but the resulting disk still fails to boot.
I wonder if the BIOS is performing some additional 'sanity check' on the MBR record before accepting it for booting - something that Windows and Linux pass by default but NetBSD's does not..
