The following reply was made to PR port-i386/26007; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
To: Urban Boquist <urban@boquist.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gavan@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/26007
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:03:18 +0200

 Urban Boquist wrote:
 > Actually, I think your problem is most probably the same as 26007. The
 > problem now, I think, is that the work-around Gavan committed in
 > August works for some people but not for all (which he also noted in
 > the commit message).
 > 
 > FWIW I also have an (older) VIA cpu machine that exhibits very similar
 > symptoms; very early in boot the display goes either very weird, or
 > completely black, or the text size gets very small. In all cases it
 > hangs hard. Interestingly Gavan's change helped i bit in that it can
 > now boot from floppy, but the same boot blocks booting from a CD still
 > hangs... ;-(
 
 The funny thing is also the 'randomness' of the hangs - if you play with 
 the 'interactive boot-loader', you can get the weirdest 
 color/resolution/size-combinations!
 
 BTW: Yesterday, I installed 3-BETA (boot-tiny.fs) without any problems. 
 Afterwards, you could boot - but only, if you pressed the <Enter>-Key 
 before the count-down ended, otherwise, it just hung.
 
 And now the most funny thing: Because it was 3 o'clock in the morning, I 
 wanted to go to bed and I disconnected the machine from the monitor & 
 keyboard and started it again in an other room with serial- & 
 power-cable plugged-in only. Suddenly, the count-down problem was gone.
 
 
 Kind regards,
 
 Petar