Subject: Re: Problem with 3.0 bootblock's VGA detection on headless machine (Toshiba Magnia SG20)
To: Jason Mitchell <jmitchel@bigjar.com>
From: Urban Boquist <urban@boquist.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/03/2006 09:36:08
>>>>> Jason Mitchell writes:

Jason> I recently upgraded a headless station (a Toshiba Magnia SG20)
Jason> that I have from NetBSD 1.6 to 3.0. After the upgrade the
Jason> headless station wouldn't boot. I can only see some of the text
Jason> (on a 16x2 LCD screen) but it looks like the first chunk of the
Jason> kernel loads and then the machine hangs.

Jason> Now I found a solution was to switched back to the
Jason> biosboot_com0.sym bootblock from NetBSD 1.6 (using the 1.6
Jason> installboot).

Maybe this is just another incarnation of PR 26007?

     http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26007

Best regards,

        -- Urban