With Bean's last two commits I can almost replace legacy with grub2 at least on x86. I have still one problem with the aout support that Bean posted as a patch on Jan 27.
Using legacy, which loads the FreeBSD /boot/loader as the 'kernel', loader then reads its config files from the /boot directory so it knows what parameters to pass to the real kernel and also what menu items to show the user. Using grub2 with Bean's aout patch, I can load /boot/loader and then boot it successfully, but it seems that 'loader' can't find its config files in the /boot directory. This is what it prints: Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: can't load "kernel". At least on my machine, disk0 is the floppy drive and loader does actually go to try to read it before printing the error messages I listed, and then it drops to its interactive prompt. By examining the loader's variables it's clear that it never found its usual config files in /boot. BTW, I did set 'root' and 'prefix' to point at the correct partition before booting the loader. Any ideas what else to try? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
