On 10/15/07, Rodrigo V. Raimundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Sex, 2007-10-12 C s 09:57 +0200, Raimo Niskanen escreveu: > > Can grub actually boot a bsd kernel. I thought it was in a > > different binary format than Linux kernels. > > Grub can boot *BSD kernel and can detect in what binary format it is. > But in case it dont recognite the binary there is a --type=openbsd > parameter that can be used with the "kernel" command. > > > Does grub pass kernel arguments to the bsd kernel in the > > right way. > > It is not possible to pass kernel parameters from grub to /bsd*
I have not had success booting an OpenBSD kernel directly from GRUB. Specifying --type=openbsd allows GRUB to load the kernel, but the kernel then dies with "panic: /boot too old: upgrade!" This happens both with bsd and bsd.rd from the most recent snapshot. NetBSD does boot successfully from GRUB, and with netbsd-4 and -current, kernel arguments work as well. Kernel args don't really apply to FreeBSD since for booting FBSD "directly" with GRUB you use "kernel /boot/loader" and the loader takes over from there. I'm sure OpenBSD could be made to boot from GRUB but I don't imagine that's very high on anyone's list. Andrew
