Since there were no comments after my request for review for the patch that makes NetBSD be Multiboot-compliant, I have commited it to the tree. This feature is enabled as a default on i386's GENERIC and GENERIC_LAPTOP kernels; for others, you need to add options MULTIBOOT to their configuration file.
Please note that regular GRUB builds will not boot these new kernels properly. This is because of a bug in GRUB Legacy. You either need to install grub-0.97nb4 from pkgsrc or manually apply this patch to the GRUB sources.
See multiboot(8) for more information.
Edit (Feb 6th, 21:06): Some typos fixed based on comments from Reinhard von der Lippe. Does anyone remember seeing this happening (the post update) a couple of days ago? If you use an aggregator, you should have seen an update to the post that looked very similar to this. (More details on the comments.)
7 comments:
Deleting comments? Thanks. Now I know what a person you are. I should have known from looking at your desk photo. Gah, another reason for quitting computing. Hope to do this in spring.
Reinhard von der Lippe
I did not delete any comment. And just for the record, I have never done that.
Actually I was "surprised" because I received a copy of your comment through mail and fixed what you told me was incorrect. I also asked you in a reply if you had deleted the comment, because I was unable to find it anywhere.
Even more, I thanked you publically in the post I corrected based on your comments. At last, I replied to your comment. Both the corrections, your comment and my reply have vanished.
I don't know what the hell is happening... sorry if it caused a bad impression and let's hope this is not deleted too. For now, I'm going to repost your original comment with an appropriate timestamp...
[Originally posted at 2/04/2006 12:01:19 PM; it is unknown to me why it was deleted]
It's committed. Please note that, should be Please note that (no comma).
On your About me page is another mistake: it has to read I also manage, not I also manages.
Also, please stop using those stupid abbreviations like BTW or IMHO -- they make your text look amateurish.
This is not meant as an insult!
Take care
Reinhard von der Lippe
[Originally posted at 2/04/2006 01:10:42 PM; it is unknown to me why it was deleted]
Reinhard von der Lippe: Thanks for your corrections. Have you removed the comment from this page? (I don't even know if that's possible... but I received a notification and haven't found it in the blog...)
I also posted a short comment on this post which seems to have disappeared... Maybe some bug in the software or another problem at blogger.com?
Geert
Sorry, that comment was on the "Multiboot support for review" post, and is still there.
Geert
Julio M. Merino Vidal:
OK, I am sorry and apologize for being so harsh. I just thought you deleted them. I usually don't do the web.
And, of course, thanks for improving the NetBSD operating system.
Reinhard von der Lippe
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