A bit more than a year ago I started working on Multiboot support for NetBSD. This work was completed by the end of past year and was integrated into the main source tree, allowing any user to boot his NetBSD installation by using GRUB alone, without having to chainload different boot loaders.
I've written an introductory article on Multiboot and how NetBSD was converted to support it. It has just been published at ONLamp. Enjoy reading!
2 comments:
I enjoyed the article. a search like:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=NetBSD+grub+howto&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
reveals there isn't a direct NetBSD HOW-TO for this. Maybe you can use the text to make one?
cheers -George
Hmm... maybe I'd update the NetBSD installation documentation to explain how to use this new feature. Sounds like a good idea!
For now, you'll get some instructions when installing the GRUB package, but that only works if you install GRUB from pkgsrc, of course. It's true that that's of no help for people using the GRUB installed by other OSes (Linux).
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