Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Hi, > > I made some tests with the people/phcoder/abstractmbi branch, but I'm > a bit late reporting them... Better late than never I guess :-) > > I compiled the branch and installed GRUB from Linux on a USB stick, > and then booted my NetBSD box from the stick, with multiboot. It > worked like a charm. :-) > > Regarding the question (on irc) whether it also works with modules, it > turns out that NetBSD/i386 kernel multiboot code lacks module support > (in -current). Therefore, to test modules, I tried booting Xen 3.3 > (with NetBSD as DOM0), with: > > grub> multiboot (...)/xen.gz console=vga > grub> module (...)/netbsd-XEN3PAE_DOM0 console=pc > grub> boot > > and I got an error "Panic on CPU0" from Xen (before booting DOM0). It's known problem: xen makes inappropriate assumptions about mbi placement > This is with the abstractmbi branch, I didn't try with GRUB trunk. > There are some reports in the archives of grub-devel regarding > problems with Xen 3.3, so maybe this is a known issue with GRUB. Note > that with NetBSD's boot loader, which is also able to multiboot with > modules, doing: > > load /netbsd-XEN3PAE_DOM0 console=pc > multiboot /xen.gz console=vga > > works fine. > > Grégoire > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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