Re: Who changed the bootloader recently?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> I have a Frankensteined NetBSD with grub so I can remotely boot NetBSD,
> FreeBSD, and Linux. So as of a couple of weeks ago, grub can't boot NetBSD.
>
> And someone has also changed the installer so it's much less useful to
> me. I used to be able to use it  when I screwed up the bootloader,
> stopping it and then telling it to boot off of hd0:/netbsd or something.
> Now I don't seem to have that option.

        Others have commented on the grub issues, but as for the new
        installer boot menu - what happens if you select the 'Drop to boot
        prompt' option - can you then enter 'boot hd0:' ?

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