Re: NetBSD on Gateway SX2185?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

> > I also tried to boot up an Ubuntu 14.04.1 distribution from DVD, and it 
> > successfully loaded GRUB!
> >
> > Maybe there's a way to update the on-disk bootloader with GRUB instead of 
> > the usual NetBSD bootloader?
>
> You can certainly boot NetBSD with GRUB in a pinch... though it would be nice 
> to figure out what's going on.

Well, first I need to get GRUB onto the NetBSD disk!

I tried to build the grub2 package, but the build failed.  grub 0.97 
package builds, and I ran grub-install but the resulting disk still 
fails to boot.



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