On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:19:21 +0100
"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> after some hacking days, I've finally got some code to make NetBSD
> Multiboot-compliant.  We already discussed this here and all I got
> was positive feedback:
> 
> 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2005/12/28/0008.html
> 
> The patch still needs some cleanup and bug fixing (specially testing
> that several things work after the changes) but, while I do those,
> I want to ask for feedback because the code won't change that much.
> The preliminary patch is at:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmmv/multiboot.diff

I just tried your patch (thanks for doing it BTW) but didn't work. 
I've followed the instructions of multiboot(8)'s manpage:

* Build kernel with options MULTIBOOT
* Apply patch grub-fix-addresses.diff to grub and reinstall it with
  "grub-install /dev/wdNd"
* Modify /grub/menu.lst with:

title NetBSD/Multiboot
kernel (hd0,1,a)/netbsd.gz -c console=pc root=wd0a

When the ELF image is already loaded the boot process hangs.
I tried with both compressed and uncompressed kernel.

Best regards.