On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:26:33AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I'd like to boot into NetBSD with the Bootloader Grub which is already 
> installed on my Notebook.
> 
> I have managed to boot NetBSD, but can't pass the root device to the 
> kernel, so that NetBSD always asks me, which root device it should take.
> 
> Grub itself says, that it isn't able to pass information to the NetBSD 
> Kernel, but on the otherside, I've seen machines booting successfully 
> into NetBSD with Grub (The 2.0 NetBSD LiveCD for example).
> 
> Maybe someone knows a way to boot (with root), anyway?

I have an Opteron test machine with 3 disks :

hd0    Linux/x86_64 (CentoOS 3.3)
hd1    NetBSD/amd64
hd2    FreeBSD/amd64

For booting NetBSD (same for FreeBSD), i use the following lines :

title NetBSD hd1
        root (hd1,0,a)
        rootnoverify (hd1,0,a)
        chainloader +1

Hope this helps,
Regards.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.