On Jan 27, 2008 5:24 AM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 23:01 +0800, Bean wrote: > > this is the patch, problems found: > > > > 1, the mbi structure is not initialized to all zeros, this means some > > important member, like mods_count, will contain trash. > > 2, the entry point in the header is virtual address, we need to > > translate it to physical address... > > Yes! I just discovered that I can multiboot the netbsd kernel off > of a FAT32 fs or even an NTFS fs, but *not* off of a UFS fs :o/ > > Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of > reading or loading it from the UFS fs. I can read small text files > from a UFS fs, however, so I'm thinking maybe this has something to > do with the size of the netbsd kernel? > > BTW, I've tried booting the netbsd kernel off of a FreeBSD UFS1 fs > but I can't tell if my NetBSD partition is UFS1 or UFS2 -- dumpfs > doesn't say which kind it is. I confess I really don't remember if > I have any UFS2 partitions or not. > > Excellent work so far in just one day! Got any other tricks? :o)
please make a small ufs image containing the netbsd kernel, i don't a a bsd system at hand. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
