On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:54:02AM -0800, Ian Main wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Eurocom laptop, which I am trying to install NetBSD on, but it
> doesn't want to complete the boot stage.  It's a fairly standard system:
> 
> Celeron 433
> 128M ram
> Mach64 video
> ps/2 mouse
> 
> etc.
> 
> Oddly, OpenBSD boots fine, but NetBSD hangs at boot.. the last msg printed is:
> 
> isa0 at pcib0
> 
> I tried NetBSD 1.4.1 and the 19991223 snapshot boot floppies.

Did you let it in this state long enouth ? The IDE probe can take up to 59s
to complete if things go bad.
Can you enter the kernel debugger from here (ctrl-alt-esc) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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