Bootloader WOES

[Jud]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:55:32 -0700, Remington L. <cableboy at 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