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NetBSD

GRUB can load NetBSD a.out and ELF directly, follow these steps:

1. Set GRUB's root device with root (see root).
2. Load the kernel with kernel (see kernel). You should append the ugly option --type=netbsd, if you want to load an ELF kernel, like this:
   

   grub> kernel --type=netbsd /netbsd-elf
   

3. Run boot (see boot).

For now, however, GRUB doesn't allow you to pass kernel parameters, so it may be better to chain-load it instead, for more information please see Chain-loading.