Re: Boot breakage

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Paul Goyette wrote:

> Some time between 2011-01-07 10:20:01 and 2011-01-07 15:29:25 UTC, changes in 
> NetBSD have made it impossible to boot NetBSD port-amd64 under anita/qemu ...
>
> I'm running another build now to see if anything has changed in the last hour 
> or so...

Whatever the problem was, it seems to have disappeared.  Sorry for the 
noise.


> > > NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 5.7 (from NetBSD 5.99.43)
> > > Memory: 637/31744 k
>
>     1. Boot normally
>     2. Boot single user
>     3. Disable ACPI
>     4. Disable ACPI and SMP
>     5. Drop to boot prompt
>
> Choose an option; RETURN for default; SPACE to stop countdown.
> Option 1 will be chosen in 0 seconds.
> read header short
> boot: hd0a:netbsd: Inappropriate file type or format
>
> Choose an option; RETURN for default; SPACE to stop countdown.
> Option 1 will be chosen in 0 seconds.
> read header short
> boot: hd0a:netbsd: Inappropriate file type or format
>
> Choose an option; RETURN for default; SPACE to stop countdown.
> Option 1 will be chosen in 0 seconds.
> read header short
> boot: hd0a:netbsd: Inappropriate file type or format
> ...
>
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