Re: booting kernel of NetBSD (Re: UFS (FFS) support seems broken in grub2)

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:09:20PM -0800, walt wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 09:53 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > I just committed a check in grub-probe that attempts to read and verify 
> > files
> > using GRUB filesystems and compares them with output from your system.  E.g.
> > if you do:  grub-probe -t fs /full/path/to/file it will compare and verify 
> > it
> > using fs/ufs.c.
> 
> A few problems.  grub-mkdevicemap generates an incomplete file 
> containing only a very long list of (hd0), (hd1) ... (hd35) with
> no matching device names.  I edited the file by hand to this:
> (hd0)   /dev/ad0
> (hd1)   /dev/ad1
> 
> # grub-probe /           
> grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /.
> 
> # grub-probe -t fs /kernel
> grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /kernel.

Someone sent a patch for this, search for "[PATCH] grub-probe && FreeBSD".

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Robert Millan

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