Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:57:21 -0400 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: "Remington L." <cableboy@charter.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootloader WOES Message-ID: <oprrcnlvk40cf2rk@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <auto-000073734521@remt23.cluster1.charter.net> References: <auto-000073734521@remt23.cluster1.charter.net>
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:55:32 -0700, Remington L. <cableboy@charter.net> wrote: > Part 1 > > I have an old HP NetServer LH Pro that had NetBSD 1.6.1 on it. The > NetServer is a P166, 64MB RAM 2GB SCSI drive(comes up on da0) > > Last night I attempted to install FreeBSD 5.1-R. Everything ran smoothly > until I reboot. At the boot loader screen F1: FreeBSD, I hit F1 and it > went > to the NetBSD screen and tried booting netbsd.gz. This is seemingly > impossi > > Is there a way to reinstall the boot loader without the entire OS? > > Part 2 > > Ideally I would like to install grub but that is also plagued with > problems. > I went in to the LiveFS. Mounted my drives, created the config file and > all > that, Rebooted and booted off the GRUB floppy and tried to install, by > issuing the following: install (hd0,1,a)/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0,1,a) > /boot/grub/stage2 p > (hd0,1,a)/boot/grub/menu.cfg > > It comes back with "Error 22: Nu such partition". To the best of my > knowledge this is correct. The root partition is on da0s1a. What am I > missing? Install root partition as UFS1 rather than default UFS2. If 5.1 still doesn't work, try 4-STABLE. Jud
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