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Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:47:00 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:34:10PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> >
> > Okuji, is this ok to merge?
>
> No. The patch is just a workaround only for netbooting, so I don't like it. It
> is not generally useful. I would be happy to apply the patch, if you modify it
> so that it can work with disk-based systems as well. (If I'm wrong, let me
> know.)
>
> Also, I don't understand why a relative path must be supported, and I find no
> explanation about that.
It seems to me that the patch is actualy a merge of 4 changes. From the
website:
* Teach Grub how to recognize an OpenBSD kernel.
* Teach Grub how to boot OpenBSD (both a.out and ELF images)
* Teach Grub how to request a relative TFTP file (using two slashes, i.e
"//bsd" will do a tftp request for "bsd").
* Change the default menu file from /boot/grub/menu.lst to grub.conf
I don't have any opinion on change #3, but changes #1 and #2 don't appear to
be related to netbooting (perhaps they refer to stage2/{boot.c,shared.h})
--
Robert Millan
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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
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