[Bluewall] Re: Bluewall mailing list

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Just updating this post of mine. Might help other users.

> As per the installation instructions, I did "grub-install /dev/hda7"
> (hda7 being the partition where I have Bluewall installed). But I get
> an error message "the file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly". Any
> ideas why?

Not sure, but I wonder if its anything to do with the fact that I am
running the command from a chroot-ed environment. So I tried the
command after getting out, but this time it didnt even work. Got lot
of errors -- some commands not being found etc.

> I managed to install GRUB though by starting GRUB from the command
> line and then doing "setup (hd0,6)". That time it read the stage1 file
> correctly.

I forgot: before running "setup (hd0, 6)" (or whatever ur partition
is), do a "root (hd0, 6)" (same partition as for setup). Else "setup"
gives an error -- it doesn't look for the files in teh correct place.

> 2) (Not related to Bluewall directly) How do I mount the NetBSD ufs
> partition through Linux? When I mount it through "mount -t ufs", I am
> asked to specify the type of the ufs -- 44bsd, ufs2, 5xbsd, old, and
> many others. Which is the correct one for NetBSD?

The type is "44bsd". Got this from the NetBSD list.

> I haven't managed to boot into Bluewall yet though, coz for some
> reason the NetBSD bootloader is not allowing me to define an entry for
> the linux partition. I've asked that on the port-i386 -- once I figure
> that part out, then I can boot. :)

This is yet to get solved, but since I have Windows XP (which boots
thru NTLDR, via the NetBSD bootloader), I added an entry for Bluewall
to NTLDR and so now I can boot to Linux that way. Just a temporary
workaround till I figure how to add the Linux partition to the NetBSD
menu directly. (And no, I dont want to install GRUB as my main
bootloader; I want use the NetBSD one coz I haven't used it much).

Thanks,
Rakhesh

ps. Installed my first package -- "editors/nano" today. :)

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