On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:28:05PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > GRUB appears capable of booting the kernel, but can't pass any kernel > options. This appears to include passing the root file system, requiring > it to be typed by hand later on. > > The NetBSD loader is, unsurprisingly, not subject to this restriction. I'd > be tempted to go with packaging this and using it as our primary boot > mechanism unless anyone objects. The one problem I can think of is that it > stores the bootcode in /boot, which is a directory under Linux systems. Do > we want to leave /boot as a directory and move the BSD bootcode in there > (presumably patching things slightly in the process) or leave it as is?
Honestly? I'd really love to see GRUB achieve it's nominal purpose - GRand Unified Bootloader. Making it capable of compiling on, and booting, *BSD machines seems like a major step forward for it, and it shouldn't be all that hard - it's just one kernel and one primary filesystem (FFS) to make sure function, to support the vast majority of BSD-land. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
