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Re: Anyone using the new aout support?
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Anyone using the new aout support? |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:24:16 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 04:15:32PM -0800, walt wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:44:28PM -0800, walt wrote:
> >>Bean wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt<address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
> >>>> with BSD/UFS and aout. I added no patches, and built on linux.
> >>>>
> >>>> Everything seems to work very well indeed, except that the 'aout'
> >>>> command is still not available to me at the grub2 shell prompt.
> >>>>...
> >>
> >>>Unlike the first version, aout is not a standalone command now, it's
> >>>just some helper function used by the bsd and multiboot module.
> >>Yes, thanks! I can use 'freebsd /boot/loader' now, and also the more
> >>modern 'freebsd /boot/kernel/kernel' to load the kernel directly.
> >>
> >>Most excellent work, Bean, and thanks again.
> >
> >Btw, if you feel like it, you could write the missing add-on script so that
> >update-grub works (i.e. like 10_linux, 10_hurd, etc).
>
> Hm. Bean hasn't replied, so maybe you were talking to me?
I was, but anyone is welcome to implement it.
> I'm not
> opposed to trying, but I don't know what update-grub is designed to do.
> Remember, I've never actually installed grub2 to a disk or even attempted
> it, so I know nothing about the grub2 infrastructure. I just boot grub2
> from grub1 and admire the result :o)
Try installing it to disk then.
--
Robert Millan
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(as seen on /.)
- Anyone using the new aout support?, walt, 2008/02/20
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Pavel Roskin, 2008/02/20
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Bean, 2008/02/20
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, walt, 2008/02/21
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Robert Millan, 2008/02/24
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, walt, 2008/02/25
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Bean, 2008/02/26
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Robert Millan, 2008/02/28
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?, Bean, 2008/02/28
- Re: Anyone using the new aout support?,
Robert Millan <=