Re: grub/openbsd

[rt]

> >     1.) is there a patch for grub to work with openbsd?
>
> Please be more precize. What version of OpenBSD? Do you mean booting the
> kernel from GRUB or the ability to compile and install GRUB on OpenBSD?

        Under OpenBSD 2.8, directly loading the kernel with GRUB
results in the kernel panicking with a 'boot to old: upgrade'. GRUB
won't load the boot loader because it complains of a 1MB limit.

> As far as I know, you should be able to compile and install GRUB on
> OpenBSD but you will have to change the default /boot/grub directory to
> something else, because /boot is a file on OpenBSD.

        Complilation and installation aren't a problem.

> You should be able to boot OpenBSD using the OpenBSD bootloader. Loading
> the kernel directly is only supported for old versions of OpenBSD (2.5 and
> older, I believe), but I haven't been tracking the development of GRUB
> closely enough to know for sure.

        Either I am wrong (hopefully) or it's broken. Unless someone
gives me a solution, I'll go ahead and patch it and then post the patch
here.

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ryan tecco

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