Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to understand the specification of the multiboot
> boot_device field. How should this information be interpreted by a
> kernel that uses a native (non-DOS) disk label? For instance, if the
> MBI passed to the NetBSD kernel says part1=5 and part2=part3=0x
Hi,
(a) set root=(hd1,2,a) ; multiboot /mbtest ; boot
--> boot_device = 0x810100ff
(b) multiboot (hd1,2,a)/mbtest ; boot
--> boot_device = 0x8000
Out of curiosity, I tried equivalent commands with GRUB Legacy, and I
get boot_device = 0x810100ff in both cases.
Best regards,
Gré
