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[multiboot] abstractmbi, modules
From: |
Grégoire Sutre |
Subject: |
[multiboot] abstractmbi, modules |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:49:06 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091027) |
Hi,
I made some tests with the people/phcoder/abstractmbi branch, but I'm a
bit late reporting them... Better late than never I guess :-)
I compiled the branch and installed GRUB from Linux on a USB stick, and
then booted my NetBSD box from the stick, with multiboot. It worked
like a charm. :-)
Regarding the question (on irc) whether it also works with modules, it
turns out that NetBSD/i386 kernel multiboot code lacks module support
(in -current). Therefore, to test modules, I tried booting Xen 3.3
(with NetBSD as DOM0), with:
grub> multiboot (...)/xen.gz console=vga
grub> module (...)/netbsd-XEN3PAE_DOM0 console=pc
grub> boot
and I got an error "Panic on CPU0" from Xen (before booting DOM0). This
is with the abstractmbi branch, I didn't try with GRUB trunk. There are
some reports in the archives of grub-devel regarding problems with Xen
3.3, so maybe this is a known issue with GRUB. Note that with NetBSD's
boot loader, which is also able to multiboot with modules, doing:
load /netbsd-XEN3PAE_DOM0 console=pc
multiboot /xen.gz console=vga
works fine.
Grégoire
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