Re: Grub problem?

[Jason Thomas]

grub currently has problems booting newer version of the bsd's directly.
for now you'll have to use /boot/loader, the grub team is looking for
assistance with getting grub to work with the bsd's maybe you can help.

can anyone else on the list give any extra info to Christian.

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> 
> I'm writing directly to you because I'm not sure if it's a bug in grub
> or not. So let me first explain the situation.
> 
> I have grub set up to boot either debian unstable or FreeBSD 4.3. I
> updated yesterday then to FreeBSD 4.5 and also did rebuild the FreeBSD
> kernel. When I know try to boot FreeBSD 4.5 grub will fail and tell me
> "Invalid or unsupported executable format". If I tell grub that I should
> use /boot/loader instead of /kernel as kernel, FreeBSD will boot fine.
> The FreeBSD boot entry in grub looks like this:
> 
> |title FreeBSD 4.x
> |root   (hd0,2,a)
> |kernel (hd0,2,a)/kernel
> 
> With a FreeBSD 4.3 kernel this works fine, but with the FreeBSD 4.5
> kernel that doesn't work anymore. Are you aware about this problem?
> Anything I can do to debug this further? Currently I'm just using
> /bin/loader as a work around.
> 
> Christian
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