Re: Anyone using the new aout support?

[Bean]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:15 AM, walt <address@hidden> 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'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)

10_xxx are scripts that output menuentry for a specific os. For
example, for 10_freebsd, you first check for boot files like
/boot/loader and /boot/kernel/kernel, if they exist, then the system
could be freebsd. Then, you output the menuentry to load this os. You
can check 10_linux to see how to write it.

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Bean