Re: Who changed the bootloader recently?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, David Brownlee wrote:

> 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:' ?

There's no delay and it immediately boots off of cd0:

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