On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:21:26PM -0800, walt wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:49:55PM -0800, walt wrote: > >>I recompiled my NetBSD kernel with the MULTIBOOT option enabled, but > >>I still get a 'magic broken' error when doing 'multiboot /netbsd'. > > > >The kernel of NetBSD supports multiboot now? Or maybe it's referring to > >something else? > > I'm referring to NetBSD-HEAD, not RELEASE. I'm sure you will understand > the commit messages better than I do (search for multiboot): > > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC
Really nice. Does this work with GRUB Legacy? > >What's the exact error message? > > free magic is broken at 0x5cb60: 0xbb<etc> That means memory corruption. Can have a variety of causes :-/ > >>On FreeBSD I use grub0.95 to load /boot/loader as 'the kernel' and > >>everything just works. Using grub2, I can't tell exactly what I am > >>supposed to use, e.g. insmod, module, or [whatever]. There is no > >>'kernel' command any more, right? > > > >Someone should write a new loader for that. > > Would it be better to add multiboot support to the kernel and eliminate > /boot/loader? Of course. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
