A -current/i386 from this afternoons sources fails early in booting.
The BIOS does its probing and testing and then about the time it would
pass control to the netbsd bootblocks I get the message (in all caps):

     HIT ANY KEY TO REBOOT

I did install new bootblocks along with a new kernel and userland.
(Booting from an ancient 1999 set of bootblocks on a floppy did get me
up and running, so it really is only the on-disk boot code that is the
problem.)

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/